Kail
Kail was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 642 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kail?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,229, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2008, the peak
Kail peaked in 2008, when 44 babies were given it (37 boys, #3,135 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,229 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,334 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,310 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,121 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,915 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,131 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,485 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,866 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 20 | #4,802 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,458 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 24 | #4,124 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,464 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,205 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,273 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,516 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,135 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,837 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,416 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,346 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,340 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,781 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,398 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,780 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,175 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,749 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,019 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,564 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,741 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,372 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,089 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,852 | 6.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,736 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,571 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,836 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,202 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,637 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,261 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,748 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,797 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,832 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,351 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 642 Americans recorded as Kail, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kail, and how old are they?
An estimated 628 Americans named Kail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 757 people named Kail (139 women and girls, 618 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,557 babies since 1880, Kail is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,970 babies recorded by SSA was a Kail (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kail and names like it
- Compare Kail and KhalilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKail peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kail since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.