Kaye

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaye: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaye: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 33 years, it reached #89 in 1961, and it was last ranked in 2011.

3registrars recorded it
20times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#89highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Kaye's record

Absent from every published list for 33 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2011

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2152
1998	#1979
1999	#1970
2000	#3247
2001	#2226
2002	#2301
2003	#3099
2004	#3725
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#5556
2010	#4688
2011	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2011.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1960
First recorded at #96 among girls in New Zealand in 1960 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1960–1962
Highest recorded position: #89 among girls in New Zealand, in 1961 (recorded 1960–1962).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011.
England and Wales · Girls

Kaye appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 16 ranked years and 84 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1960.

Kaye across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaye's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1970 (1999)	#5785 (2011)	16 of 16	84 (1996–2011)	8 (1998)
New Zealand · Girls	#96 (1960)	#89 (1961)	#99 (1962)	3 of 3	227 (1960–1962)	86 (1961)

Kaye by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaye in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	49	10 of 10	5
2010s	7	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kaye appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #89 in New Zealand in 1961.

Kaye's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	72	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New Zealand	female	#99	70	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	female	#89	86	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	female	#96	71	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 2011, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #89, first reached in 1961.

It held a top-100 place in 4 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 86 births, registered in New Zealand in 1961.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 33 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1960, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kaydi · #842, 14y
Kaydon · #678, 25y
Kayen · #3048, 10y
Kayhan · #2055, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Fianna · #89, 21y
Saorlaith · #90, 19y
Clint · #86, 23y
Rehmat · #93, 16y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Cornelia · #90, 63y
Harold · #88, 50y
Howard · #90, 53y
Ted · #90, 55y

Kaye was ranked #89 in New Zealand · Girls in 1961. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kaye and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kaye without appearing here.

Kaye moved ahead of

Gail Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #3667 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3860 and #5545.
Vicki Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #3197 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #3970.

Moved ahead of Kaye

Ezra Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4688 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #3185.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3382 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1741.
Selma Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1970 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3247 and #1389.
Meabh Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #4049.

Moved the opposite way to Kaye

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 while Ada went from #2683 to #386.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 while Alma went from #2096 to #702.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 while Alyssa went from #783 to #160.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 while Amalie went from #2096 to #692.

Moved the same way as Kaye

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 and Abigail from #21 to #38.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 and Aimee from #70 to #104.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 and Aisling from #440 to #1665.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaye went from #2683 to #5785 and Alex from #161 to #652.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #89 in New Zealand in 1961. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Kaye

Kaye at a glance

What stands out in Kaye's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaye across 2 official records

Kaye by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaye appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Kaye moved ahead of

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Kaye at a glance

What stands out in Kaye's record

Kaye across 2 official records

Kaye by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Kaye appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Kaye

Kaye and the names beside it

Kaye moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kaye

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