Kanye
Kanye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 486th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2004509 births
- Best rank
- #486in 2004
- Since 2002
- 1,399people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,399 boys have been named Kanye in the United States since 2002, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 509 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 509 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 79%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2004, its biggest year
Kanye was the 486th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Kanye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Omarionpeak 2005
- Imanolpeak 2006
- Jadinpeak 2002
- Jahiempeak 2002
- Kadinpeak 2004
- Notnamedpeak 2000
- Jadanpeak 2005
- Andonpeak 2004
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.