Kaiser
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #835 for boys in 2025, 296 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 342 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,921since 1915
Kaiser over time
Rank among boys' names. Kaiser has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #835 | 296 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #800 | 314 |
| 2023 | — | #765 | 337 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #749 | 342 |
| 2021 | — | #786 | 313 | |
| 2020 | — | #866 | 261 | |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #820 | 275 |
| 2018 | — | #817 | 275 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #929 | 225 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #980 | 208 |
| 2015 | — | #1,271 | 141 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,044 | 69 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,139 | 62 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,590 | 47 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,212 | 59 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,663 | 46 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,291 | 57 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,698 | 43 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,074 | 32 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,528 | 25 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,188 | 19 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,842 | 21 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,882 | 9 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kaiser! It came in at #2,829, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kaiser
- 35 spots since 2024 (#800 → #835)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#866 → #835)
- 436 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #835)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2016 (#1,271 → #980)
- Biggest drop: 46 spots in 2020 (#820 → #866)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2022 at #749 (342 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,076 boys born in 2023 were named Kaiser (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,771 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #749 in 2022, was only 1 in 5,105 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.5% of all boys named Kaiser (1,863) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31 | #2,829 (1915) | #3,080 |
| 1920s | 29 | #2,967 (1920) | #3,426 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 20 | #2,443 (1948) | #3,202 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 17 | #3,365 (1968) | #3,784 |
| 1970s | 39 | #3,370 (1971) | #4,649 |
| 1980s | 34 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,311 |
| 1990s | 140 | #3,182 (1999) | #4,677 |
| 2000s | 336 | #2,291 (2008) | #3,245 |
| 2010s | 1,407 | #817 (2018) | #1,643 |
| 2020s | 1,863 | #749 (2022) | #800 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kaiser in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Kaiser, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 9,124 of them was named Kaiser, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).