Girls' name · since 1995
Kess
63 babies named Kess in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 63
- total births
- 1995–2002
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 70%
- born in that decade
Kess is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 63 have been recorded since 1995.
Kess has 63 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2002.
- 63 total births
- 1995–2002 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 70% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kess's 63 recorded births place it above 55% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kess's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kess's SSA record in two at 1999 and the more recent half accounts for 41% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 59%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2002, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1997 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Kess popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2002
- Peak year (1997)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Kess by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Kess's strongest decade.
44 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Kess births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
44 births
- 2000s
2000s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 44 births (70% of all-time use).
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- Kess's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (44 total births) through the 2000s (19) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1995–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kess: Baby Name Since 1995 - 63 Births, Peak 1997." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kess. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kess draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.