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The table below indicates the number of times the name Kay has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kay**
Use of the Name Kay for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
2,767	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kay has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kay first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1885, which is the first year shown on the table. Kay last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1984, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kay**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1885			987	6
1886
1887
1888	990	6
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893			751	16
1894			826	14
1895
1896			927	13
1897			846	15
1898			942	14
1899			654	23
1900			714	26
1901			694	22
1902			659	26
1903			534	37
1904			532	39
1905			485	49
1906			546	42
1907			493	53
1908			418	75
1909			401	83
1910			381	106
1911			386	110
1912			386	143
1913			381	159
1914			361	215
1915			388	241
1916	943	46	380	271
1917			375	283
1918	878	58	368	311
1919			355	328
1920	837	65	370	314
1921	905	60	382	303
1922	872	63	391	281
1923	699	86	395	286
1924	757	78	394	303
1925	813	67	439	248
1926	719	78	460	223
1927	632	100	420	268
1928	695	84	463	223
1929	689	80	448	218
1930	588	105	358	352
1931	522	123	259	560
1932	523	123	240	657
1933	480	136	200	864
1934	449	159	143	1,428
1935	466	149	134	1,647
1936	483	137	98	2,408
1937	506	129	79	3,003
1938	532	120	81	3,115
1939	512	123	76	3,257
1940	521	125	77	3,196
1941	620	94	70	3,536
1942	662	95	75	3,623
1943	641	99	81	3,490
1944	756	68	88	3,165
1945	890	51	91	3,054
1946			101	3,355
1947	900	60	104	3,518
1948			113	2,938
1949			119	2,755
1950			123	2,624
1951			120	2,956
1952			132	2,775
1953			146	2,466
1954			146	2,504
1955			157	2,321
1956			154	2,393
1957			163	2,357
1958			169	2,239
1959			182	2,001
1960			192	1,927
1961			192	1,953
1962			197	1,876
1963			212	1,608
1964			243	1,302
1965			271	1,021
1966			294	858
1967			328	710
1968			352	638
1969			433	499
1970			455	478
1971			501	378
1972			619	252
1973			582	272
1974			637	240
1975			720	206
1976			753	192
1977			773	195
1978			916	155
1979			943	156
1980			974	152
1981			912	164
1982			979	151
1983			972	150
1984			998	145
Totals:		2,767		95,622

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kay as a boy's name about 2% of the time and more frequently (about 97% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Kay appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 30 times during the last 125 years.

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