Kit — #1148 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kit

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,748 babies named Kit between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kit currently holds the #1148 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 182 babies received it in a single year. Kit is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,107 additional births since 1925.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kit performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 745 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Kit shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 400 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Kit in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,748 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.