Kip
Last seen for girls in 1980 at #8,178 · #1,621 for boys in 2025, 104 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1965 · 419 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,568since 1935
Kip over time
Rank among boys' names. Kip has never cracked the top 300 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 | — | #1,621 | 104 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,459 | 124 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,380 | 135 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,447 | 125 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,645 | 101 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,788 | 84 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,658 | 97 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,937 | 76 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,935 | 74 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,959 | 74 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,641 | 46 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,492 | 50 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,265 | 33 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,179 | 35 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,509 | 21 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,517 | 21 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,145 | 24 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,451 | 30 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,710 | 25 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,119 | 30 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,150 | 27 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,665 | 32 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,349 | 37 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,502 | 32 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,073 | 41 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,914 | 44 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,894 | 44 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,091 | 38 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,572 | 56 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,368 | 68 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,420 | 62 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,492 | 55 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,215 | 70 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,316 | 56 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,334 | 54 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,020 | 80 | |
| 1984 | — | #863 | 104 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,095 | 66 | |
| 1982 | — | #899 | 99 | |
| 1981 | — | #775 | 126 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #808 | 118 |
| 1979 | — | #858 | 102 | |
| 1978 | — | #778 | 117 | |
| 1977 | — | #859 | 98 | |
| 1976 | — | #756 | 120 | |
| 1975 | — | #765 | 117 | |
| 1974 | — | #677 | 144 | |
| 1973 | — | #648 | 150 | |
| 1972 | — | #656 | 149 | |
| 1971 | — | #635 | 168 | |
| 1970 | — | #595 | 185 | |
| 1969 | — | #542 | 210 | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #479 | 248 |
| 1967 | — | #439 | 293 | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #433 | 308 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | #378 | 419 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | #441 | 332 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | #497 | 261 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | #528 | 228 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #602 | 173 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #606 | 167 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | #623 | 153 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | #568 | 185 |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | #542 | 205 |
| 1956 | #2,826 | 17 | #536 | 196 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | #539 | 188 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | #659 | 121 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | #696 | 105 |
| 1952 | — | #703 | 99 | |
| 1951 | — | #707 | 96 | |
| 1950 | — | #711 | 93 | |
| 1949 | — | #824 | 68 | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | #872 | 61 |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | #956 | 55 |
| 1946 | — | #869 | 57 | |
| 1945 | — | #986 | 42 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,255 | 28 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,399 | 25 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,867 | 15 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,802 | 15 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,050 | 12 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kip! It came in at #2,719, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1937, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kip
- 162 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,621)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#1,788 → #1,621)
- 1,020 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #1,621)
- Biggest jump: 269 spots in 1945 (#1,255 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1983 (#899 → #1,095)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 1965 at #378 (419 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1945–1982
- Highest: 1 in 4,439 boys born in 1965 were named Kip (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,424 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 30.8% of all boys named Kip (2,639) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 26 | #2,050 (1939) | #2,648 |
| 1940s | 376 | #824 (1949) | #1,316 |
| 1950s | 1,441 | #536 (1956) | #628 |
| 1960s | 2,639 | #378 (1965) | #495 |
| 1970s | 1,350 | #595 (1970) | #723 |
| 1980s | 828 | #775 (1981) | #1,082 |
| 1990s | 454 | #1,368 (1991) | #1,985 |
| 2000s | 254 | #3,022 (2002) | #3,728 |
| 2010s | 527 | #1,658 (2019) | #2,809 |
| 2020s | 673 | #1,380 (2023) | #1,557 |
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.
Kip in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
Top boys' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 157,296 of them was named Kip, which outranked 52.8% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,150Yetta14
- #3,150Yevette14
- #3,150Youlanda14
- #3,309Kip13
- #3,309Aleatha13
- #3,309Aleen13
- #3,309Alfred13
- #3,489Alvenia12
- #3,489Alyse12
- #3,489Ammie12
Tied with 179 names at #3,309; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 10,523 of them was named Kip, which outranked 88.1% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.