Kush
#5,318 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kush has been given to 1,221 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #5,318 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Kush, 2025
1 in 184,000
Kush over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kush?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 94,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,318
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kush sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kush. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kushs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kush was born before 2005 — so the typical Kush is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,221
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (484).
Is Kush 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
- −678
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −823
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,043
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.51×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.7%
- Peak was 2005 (65)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kush
Kush is not the most common spelling — Kurt is, with 26.2% against Kush's 0.37%.
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 Kush is used
Across 1910–2025, Kush was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 215,494 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Georgia1 in —
- 6Massachusetts1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Kush has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kush around the world
Where Kush 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,359in 2025
- Ireland2025–2025#829in 2025
- Canada1999–2024#2,134in 2024
- South Australia2002–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kush by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kush
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kush
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.