Meaning and history
Kit is a diminutive of Christopher or Katherine. A notable bearer was Kit Carson (1809–1868), an American frontiersman and explorer.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: 6 births, rank #15,491
2008: 7 births, rank #13,832
2009: 12 births, rank #9,379
2010: 13 births, rank #8,701
20112011: 9 births, rank #11,181
2012: 16 births, rank #7,456
2013: 13 births, rank #8,580
2014: 17 births, rank #6,987
2015: 28 births, rank #4,853
20162016: 31 births, rank #4,531
2017: 49 births, rank #3,247
2018: 57 births, rank #2,905
2019: 76 births, rank #2,355
2020: 82 births, rank #2,196
20212021: 105 births, rank #1,885
2022: 166 births, rank #1,381
2023: 135 births, rank #1,569
2024: 189 births, rank #1,237
20252025: 208 births, rank #1,125
Kit moved from #857 to #922 for boys between 1957 and 1958. Its highest annual birth count came in 1955, with 86 births.