Gender-neutral · #3903 in 2025
Kay
Kay: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #3903
- Born 2025
- 37
- Peak year
- 1939
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Kay has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1939 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 83% of children named Kay were recorded as girls and 17% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.