Kc
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 69.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 69 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,951since 1961
Kc over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #14,942 | 5 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | — | #4,639 | 21 | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #4,224 | 24 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | — | #4,702 | 20 | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #3,274 | 34 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #3,379 | 32 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #2,126 | 41 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | #1,933 | 46 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #1,554 | 58 |
| 1992 | #2,920 | 40 | #1,490 | 61 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | #1,170 | 89 |
| 1990 | #2,464 | 49 | #1,361 | 67 |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 | #1,228 | 76 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 | #1,204 | 71 |
| 1987 | #2,572 | 39 | #1,153 | 69 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | #1,299 | 56 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #1,794 | 33 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #1,228 | 56 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #1,375 | 46 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #1,870 | 27 |
| 1977 | — | #1,515 | 37 | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kc! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kc
- 718 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,608)
- 910 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,608)
- 1,833 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1987 at #1,153 (69 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,700 boys born in 1991 were named Kc (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,153 in 1987, was only 1 in 27,058 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.6% of all boys named Kc (558) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 46 | #2,546 (1964) | #3,605 |
| 1970s | 153 | #1,515 (1977) | #2,716 |
| 1980s | 502 | #1,153 (1987) | #1,474 |
| 1990s | 558 | #1,170 (1991) | #1,720 |
| 2000s | 331 | #2,346 (2001) | #3,144 |
| 2010s | 239 | #3,531 (2010) | #4,245 |
| 2020s | 122 | #4,184 (2022) | #4,821 |
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.
Kc in 1961
Top boys' names in 1961
More about 1961
boys
2,124,195 boys got a published name in 1961; 1 in 424,839 of them was named Kc, which outranked 12.7% of the 4,657 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 592 names at #4,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.