Kayle
Kayle was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,099 among girls’ names; 4,654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,550 Americans named Kayle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayle?
#8,099 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayle fell from #3,507 in 2015 to #8,099 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 8.1 per million.
206 babies in 2000, the peak
Kayle peaked in 2000, when 206 babies were given it (190 girls, #1,088 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,099 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,345 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,445 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,871 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,849 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,561 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,102 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,075 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,593 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,743 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,507 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,597 | 11 | #7,295 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,745 | 9 | #8,454 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,963 | 9 | #8,512 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,890 | 10 | #7,795 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,790 | 8 | #9,244 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,668 | 15 | #5,954 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,693 | 16 | #5,626 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,650 | 9 | #8,581 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,556 | 22 | #4,297 |
| 2005 | 144 | #1,470 | 17 | #4,931 |
| 2004 | 153 | #1,370 | 7 | #9,458 |
| 2003 | 148 | #1,367 | 18 | #4,520 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,387 | 15 | #5,025 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,326 | 8 | #7,942 |
| 2000 | 190 | #1,088 | 16 | #4,685 |
| 1999 | 179 | #1,110 | 16 | #4,456 |
| 1998 | 171 | #1,122 | 15 | #4,526 |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,225 | 15 | #4,356 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,360 | 18 | #3,752 |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,310 | 17 | #3,764 |
| 1994 | 126 | #1,337 | 12 | #4,959 |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,413 | 15 | #4,127 |
| 1992 | 132 | #1,290 | 25 | #2,771 |
| 1991 | 113 | #1,419 | 16 | #3,731 |
| 1990 | 125 | #1,299 | 29 | #2,403 |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,453 | 23 | #2,732 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,710 | 16 | #3,278 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,740 | 18 | #2,889 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,089 | 22 | #2,468 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,283 | 13 | #3,513 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,031 | 11 | #3,814 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,187 | 13 | #3,326 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,059 | 8 | #4,814 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,519 | 6 | #5,880 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,639 | 12 | #3,512 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,484 | 8 | #4,364 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,667 | 9 | #4,009 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,973 | 9 | #3,862 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,731 | 5 | #5,905 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,947 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,288 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,368 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,808 | 8 | #3,803 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,676 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,717 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,588 | 8 | #3,240 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,771 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,249 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,568 | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,494 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,553 | 5 | #4,271 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,508 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,005 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #3,938 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kayle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,654 Americans recorded as Kayle, 87% are girls and 13% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kayle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayle, and how old are they?
4,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,654 Americans ever recorded as Kayle. The median Kayle alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,809 people named Kayle (4,182 women and girls, 627 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,487 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 427 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kayle born?
The states with the most babies named Kayle are California, Texas and Ohio, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 387 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 337 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 185 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 161 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 121 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 108 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 103 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 68 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 58 | not ranked | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kayle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 603,455 babies since 1880, Kayle is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 3,455 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kayle
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 Kayle and names like it
- Compare Kayle and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayle peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayle since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kayle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.