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Kaiser

#836 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Caesar

Kaiser has been given to 3,955 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #836 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 342 recorded.

Babies named Kaiser, 2025

1 in 11,200

Kaiser over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaiser: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caesar

English and German

What Kaiser means

Kaiser is a form of Caesar.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kaiser → Caesar. The family’s proposed meaning is “hairy”, recorded in the naming reference for Caesar.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaiser is used in Cebuano. Its origins include English and German.

Kaiser comes through English Kaiser and German Kaiser.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caesar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,921 boys were recorded with the name Kaiser between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 342 in 2022; its best national rank was #749 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #867 in 2020 to #836 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,276 in 2015 to #836 in 2025.

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Kaiser between 2016 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2019; its best national rank was #10,880 in 2019.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaiser?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
296 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,770
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#836
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaiser sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,764 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaiser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaisers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaiser was born before 2019 — so the typical Kaiser is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,836
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (1,863).

Is Kaiser 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
−31
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+31
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+440
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.5%
Peak was 2022 (342)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#749
2022

Spellings of Kaiser

Kaiser is not the most common spelling — Kaiden is, with 33.2% against Kaiser's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kaiser is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaiser was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,111 boys, against 1 in 5,902 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

190 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,111
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,429
  3. 3Alabama1 in 1,887
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 2,083
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 2,564
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 2,703
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 2,778
  8. 8Georgia1 in 2,941

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Kaiser is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 90% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kaiser around the world

Where Kaiser 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #599
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #415
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2018–2019
    #564
    in 2019
  • France
    2005–2025
    #6,550
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaiser by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#836
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 31
Best rank ever
#749
2022
Peak year
2022
342 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,921
Count in 2025
296

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,880
2019
Peak year
2019
9 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaiser

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

KaizenKaidynKainoaKaisenKaisonKaineKaizerKainenKaidanKaiusKailenKainanKaisynKainKailebKailerKairosKaidonKairoKailanKaitoKaimanaKairavKairee

Names with a curve like Kaiser

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaiser, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShepardJaxxonRemiHuxleyKabirBearBrixtonNovaCaspianEverestCalumZakai

Sibling names for Kaiser

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

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