Kipton
Kipton was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,626 among boys’ names; 1,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Kipton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kipton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kipton?
#2,626 among boys’ names, 2025
Kipton fell from #1,835 in 2015 to #2,626 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 29.3 per million.
127 babies in 2011, the peak
Kipton peaked in 2011, when 127 boys were given it, #1,339 among boys’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,626 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,019 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,402 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,363 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,795 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,157 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,180 | 36.2 |
| 2018 | 80 | #1,881 | 44.0 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,758 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 95 | #1,669 | 50.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,835 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,741 | 45.3 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,746 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,646 | 49.6 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,339 | 66.9 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,435 | 60.5 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,217 | 30.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,687 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,312 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,903 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,390 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,109 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,841 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,358 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,505 | 3.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,623 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,557 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kipton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kipton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kipton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kipton, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,351 Americans ever recorded as Kipton. The median Kipton alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,078 people named Kipton (13 women and girls, 1,065 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,034 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 398 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 891 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,322 babies since 1880, Kipton is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 62 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kipton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kipton and names like it
- Compare Kipton and KiptynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKipton peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kipton since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kipton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kipton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.