Kayce

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 85 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
85
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#375
up from #419
UK popularity
#452
85 babies · up from #826

How Kayce has moved

US popularity rank, 2022–2025. Lower is more popular.
#326#481#636202220242025#375

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YearUS rank
2022#587
2023#459
2024#419
2025#375

Kayce by the numbers

In 2025, 85 babies in England and Wales were named Kayce. In the US, 46 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 119 babies in 1987, making it a 1980s name.

What we can tell you about Kayce

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kayce. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kaynespear warrior; modern spelling of cain or kane80 in the US (2017)
  • Kaylenarrow strait or channel; a modern respelling of Kyle43 in the US (2017)
  • Kayepure; a form of Katherine or Kay8 in the US (2017)
  • Kace247 in the US (2017)
  • Kaycee165 in the US (2017)
  • Kaycen81 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kayce

Names that are said the same way as Kayce, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kaislion; fierce21 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Cassshe who entangles men; form of Cassandra29 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Qaisfirm, mighty15 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Casa form of Cassandra or Cassius8 in the US (2017)
  • Qaysfirm or steadfast4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Case439 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kayce

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