Boys' name · since 1970
Kief
Kief has 12 recorded births since 1970 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1970 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 12
- total births
- 1970–1972
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
12 boys have been named Kief since 1970, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kief has 12 recorded births among boys since 1970, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1970 to 1972.
- 12 total births
- 1970–1972 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kief's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kief's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Kief's SSA record in two at 1972 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1970, with only 6 births recorded.
Kief popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1970–1972
- Peak year (1970)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Kief by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Kief's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Kief births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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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, 1970–1972 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kief: Baby Name Since 1970 - 12 Births, Peak 1970." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kief. 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 Kief 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.