Kaycee
Masculine
Kaycee is given to both — 530 boys and 8,654 girls since 1880. See Kaycee as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Kaycee spells out the initials K. C., and turning initials into a written name is a genuine American practice.
How old is the name Kaycee?
Kaycee first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Kaycee is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Kaycee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaycee most popular?
Kaycee peaked in 2024, reaching #2527 nationally. Today it ranks #2641, 114 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaycee
Our story of Kaycee is a story of two letters and one Irish sept. American naming has long turned initials into spoken names — K. C., J. R., A. J. — and written them as they sound. Separately, Ó Cathasaigh means descendant of the vigilant one and gave Casey, which the ballad of Casey Jones made a given name. Kaycee sits between the two, and which a family meant is not recorded.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited etymology. It is a phonetic spelling of the initials K. C., or a respelling of Casey, from the Irish Ó Cathasaigh, 'vigilant'. Both routes are current. The Casey route gives a documented meaning; the initials route does not.
Pronouncing Kaycee
KAY-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Kaycee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 202453 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2527reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −7.5%49 in 2025, from 53
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaycee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Casey in English — related form
- Kasey in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, California.
Kaycees among us
people named Kaycee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 34,859 born in 2025 was named Kaycee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaycee
- #2641
- Kaycee on the 2025 chart
- #343
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaycee went to 49 boys in 2025, but Kayce, Cayce and Kaize and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 917, which makes it the 343rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,298 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 1,863 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,859 for Kaycee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Prestin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaycee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Prestin climbed just as high around 2005, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Prestin's path sketches the road Kaycee is walking now.
Kaycee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaycee is headed
Kaycee looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 53% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaycee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaycee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kay is available as a short form with a long record.
- The vigilant meaning is genuine where the Casey route holds.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- At least five spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It is used for both sexes in America.
- The initials route gives no inherited meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaycees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Kaycee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaycee?
- Kaycee is one of 5 recorded spellings. Kayce is the more common one — 843 births in 2025 against 49 for Kaycee.
- How popular is the name Kaycee in 2025?
- Kaycee ranks #2641 among US boy names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaycee?
- About 1 in every 34,859 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaycee — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaycee with classmates?
- Kaycee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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