Kae

Girls' name

Variant of Kay

Kae has been given to 753 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Kae, 2024

1 in 478,000

Kae over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kae means

Kae is a variant of Kay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kae is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkeɪ/ for Kae.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Kae is a variant of Kay. Kay has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 753 girls were recorded with the name Kae between 1923 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,703 in 1937.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Kae?

Kae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kae was born before 1953 — so the typical Kae is around 72 today.

Median birth year: 1953; About 72 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 7.4%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 445; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (203).

Is Kae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1953 (26)
Years since peak: 72; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,703; 1937

Where Kae is used

Across 1910–2025, Kae was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 254,101 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Utah1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kae around the world

Where Kae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1946–2005
#775
in 2005

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,703; 1937
Peak year: 1953; 26 that year
First recorded: 1923
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 753
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Kaely Kaelie Kaedyn Kaede Kaeli Kaelin Kaelani Kaeley Kaela Kaena Kaelah Kaelee Kaedence Kaelan Kaelen Kaeda Kaeleigh Kaetlyn Kaegan Kaeya Kaelynn Kaeloni Kaeden Kaelis

Sibling names for Kae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Louann Nanci Randy Marita Jacalyn Oralia Luanne Romona

For a brother

Jacky Dannie Stanton Stanford Lindsey Jerrold Leigh Artis

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