Girls' name · since 1948
Kitsy
Kitsy has 10 recorded births since 1948 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1948 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 10
- total births
- 1948–1961
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
Kitsy is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 10 have been recorded since 1948.
Kitsy has 10 recorded births among girls since 1948, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1948 to 1961.
- 10 total births
- 1948–1961 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kitsy's 10 recorded births place it above 21% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kitsy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kitsy splits its recorded history at 1961: 50% of all births land in the more recent half, 50% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1948 (5 births).
Kitsy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1948–1961
- Peak year (1948)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Kitsy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Kitsy's strongest decade.
5 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Kitsy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
5 births
- 1960s
1960s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 5 births (50% of all-time use).
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- Kitsy's usage has stayed within range of its 1940s decade-level peak (5 total births) through the 1960s (5) -- 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, 1948–1961 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kitsy: Baby Name Since 1948 - 10 Births, Peak 1948." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kitsy. 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 Kitsy 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.