Kile
Kile was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 1,065 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kile by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kile?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,207, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1996, the peak
Kile peaked in 1996, when 42 boys were given it, #2,059 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #13,207 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,282 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,513 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,138 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,249 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,550 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,464 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,911 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,655 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,937 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 18 | #5,119 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,198 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,993 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,513 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,888 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,487 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,044 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,405 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,233 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,749 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,213 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,059 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,724 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,196 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,371 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,706 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,966 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,188 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,083 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,218 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,880 | 18.2 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,258 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,199 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,009 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,243 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,650 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,322 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,897 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,241 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,453 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,513 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,614 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,140 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,231 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,131 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,290 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,532 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,105 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,967 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,827 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,412 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,125 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,121 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,836 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,174 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,855 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,292 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,239 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,563 | 3.1 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,928 | 5.0 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,503 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,658 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,645 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kile a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kile has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kile: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kile, and how old are they?
An estimated 989 Americans named Kile and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 25 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,099 people named Kile (78 women and girls, 1,021 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,007 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kile?
Kile is a less common spelling of Kyle: SSA has recorded 1,065 Kile and 494,713 Kyle since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 504,041 babies since 1880, Kile is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,434 babies recorded by SSA was a Kile (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 Kile
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 Kile and names like it
- Compare Kile and KyleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKile peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kile since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Kile.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kile alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.