Kas

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kas has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2016, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kas, 2024

1 in 669,000

Kas over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kas: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kas means

Kas is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kas is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 boys were recorded with the name Kas between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,874 in 2016.

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 Kas?

Kas 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 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kas 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 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kas was born before 2017 — so the typical Kas is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 61.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 49; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 61.2% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Kas 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 2016 (10)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,874; 2016

Kas around the world

Where Kas 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
1980–1980
#422
in 1980

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

Kas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,874; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 10 that year
First recorded: 2007
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 49
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kas

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

Kasi Kasye Kasan Kashh Kashe Kashi Kasem Kasani Kass Kasmir Kasius Kasian Kastle Kasaan Kasaun Kasch Kasahn Kashen Kaspen Kastin Kashis Kasir Kashdon Kaspar

Sibling names for Kas

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

Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee Aviana

For a brother

Smith Damari Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Langston Anson

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