Kanye
Boy · KAHN-yay
Kanye is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Kanye mean?
Known worldwide through American rapper Kanye West; Kanye is also a town in Botswana.
- Say it
- KAHN-yay
More on Wiktionary.
Is Kanye a girl's or a boy's name?
Kanye is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kanye in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 40 boys.
Half of all the boys named Kanye in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kanye in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 1 | #6,198 |
| 2012 | 8 | #2,595 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,445 |
| 2008 | 14 | #1,599 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,337 |
| 2006 | 21 | #1,131 |
| 2005 | 32 | #832 |
| 2004 | 40 | #665 |
How popular is Kanye in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Kanye, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 509 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had fewer boys named Kanye than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Kanye in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kanye in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 27 | #3,881 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,846 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,176 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,163 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,530 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,118 |
| 2008 | 81 | #1,813 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,416 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,501 |
| 2005 | 202 | #892 |
| 2004 | 509 | #486 |
| 2003 | 87 | #1,489 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
Names like Kanye
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kai Koa Kobe Kian Kayden Aiden Keanu Jayden Kane Ozzy Dylan Kwame