Kansas
Kansas is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200250 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1898
- 1,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,216 girls have been named Kansas in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 50 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 30%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 93 boys have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Kansas was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Kansas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janaipeak 2006
- Imanpeak 1996
- Hebapeak 2007
- Acaciapeak 2002
- Sadiapeak 2001
- Erynnpeak 1999
- Denissepeak 2020
- Kayciepeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.