Kail — #12567 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kail

The Social Security Administration has registered 606 babies named Kail between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kail currently holds the #12567 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Kail is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kail performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 247 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kail shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kail in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kail in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 606 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.