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.

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

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2011

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

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.

Where Kaye is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Kaye, between 1952 and 2011, in 20 of those 60 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1952	1	#94 in 1952
New Zealand	1960–1962	3	#89 in 1961
England and Wales	1996–2011	16	#1970 in 1999

Its high point came 47 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1952) than in England and Wales (1999).

No registrar recorded it for 33 years after 1962; it appears again in 1996.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

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.

What is known about Kaye

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1952–2011.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaye across 2 official records

Kaye by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Kaye is officially recorded

Names published alongside Kaye

What is known about Kaye

Kaye at a glance

Kaye across 2 official records

Kaye by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Kaye