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Ky

Gender
Boy
Say it
KY
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#3,582 for boys

Ky is a boys' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,582nd for boys in the US (31 babies).

Where does Ky come from?

Scottish: short form of Kyle or Kyler; also a separate Vietnamese name

Is Ky a girl's or a boy's name?

Ky is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 31 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ky in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 10 boys.

Half of all the boys named Ky in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 10 in 20012013
Ky in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20131#6,198
20124#4,147
20117#2,736
20104#4,026
20095#3,395
20084#3,836
20077#2,554
20065#3,013
20054#3,330
20044#3,147
20030–
20025#2,358
200110#1,458
20005#2,237
19993#3,043
19985#2,170
19976#1,853

How popular is Ky in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,582among boys
Babies in 2025
31about 1 in 55,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 31 boys in the US were named Ky, making it the 3,582nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,017th. Its busiest year was 1992, with 42 boys. It first appears in the records in 1950.

Half of all the boys named Ky in the US since 1880 were born between 1986 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,193 boys in the US were given Ky or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #90, up from #3,582 for this spelling alone.

In 2023, 13% of the babies named Ky in the US were girls.

1950Busiest: 42 in 19922025
Ky in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202531#3,582
202425#4,197
202335#3,345
202233#3,462
202130#3,647
202025#4,017
201919#4,947
201833#3,369
201740#2,950
201624#4,198
201524#4,177
201429#3,615
201328#3,659
201225#4,000
201129#3,604
201019#4,845
200922#4,427
200818#5,063
200727#3,791
200618#4,861
200532#3,168
200424#3,731
200334#2,843
200232#2,878
200135#2,676
200027#3,144
199929#2,861
199826#3,014
199724#3,059
199628#2,674
199521#3,186
199434#2,302
199330#2,449
199242#1,909
199123#2,822
199041#1,865
198931#2,200
198829#2,141
198737#1,758
198627#2,094
198522#2,356
198418#2,612
198324#2,139
198225#2,110
198115#2,896
198016#2,830
197913#3,167
197814#2,928
197714#2,909
197614#2,825
197518#2,360
197415#2,547
19738#3,692
197217#2,243
197120#2,051
197017#2,212
196911#2,681
19687#3,364
196715#2,029
19660–
19659#2,778
19649#2,853
19630–
19627#3,303
19617#3,354
19600–
19590–
19585#3,942
195710#2,629
19560–
19555#3,884
19540–
19530–
19525#3,731
19510–
19505#3,678

Names like Ky

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Brody Kody Finn Cody Kian Kayden Aiden Declan Ryan Dylan Logan Ronan

Other spellings of Ky

Kai Khai Kye Cai Kaii Kaj

Names related to Ky

Kyo Kyi

More Scottish names

Isla Finley Arabella Cameron Bonnie Paisley Carson Maxwell Brodie Finlay Blair Lennox Skye Knox Dallas Lochlan

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Ky: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ky, updated 20 October 2026.