Ku — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ku

The Social Security Administration has registered 33 babies named Ku between 1986 and 2018, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ku currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Ku is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ku performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ku shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ku in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ku 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 33 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.