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 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 140,318 of them was named Kc, which outranked 54.5% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,222Xochilt13
- #5,222Yoko13
- #5,222Zeinab13
- #5,539Kc12
- #5,539Abbigale12
- #5,539Adel12
- #5,539Adi12
- #5,899Abigal11
- #5,899Adreana11
- #5,899Aeisha11
Tied with 359 names at #5,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 32,229 of them was named Kc, which outranked 83.3% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,214Toney57
- #1,214Torrence57
- #1,214Tyrus57
- #1,228Kc56
- #1,228Darien56
- #1,228Denton56
- #1,228Everardo56
- #1,240Alfonzo55
- #1,240Demetris55
- #1,240Ephraim55
Tied with 11 names at #1,228; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.