Kindle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kindle

The Social Security Administration has registered 540 babies named Kindle between 1964 and 2023, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kindle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Kindle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kindle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 182 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kindle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 25 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Kindle in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kindle 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 540 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.