Klye
Klye was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 297 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Klye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Klye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,336, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1986, the peak
Klye peaked in 1986, when 30 boys were given it, #1,987 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #13,336 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,270 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,100 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,232 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,857 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,540 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,541 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,111 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,859 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,714 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | #4,872 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,714 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,545 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,912 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,949 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,475 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,516 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,987 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,469 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,036 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,535 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,045 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,242 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,336 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Klye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Klye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Klye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Klye, and how old are they?
An estimated 283 Americans named Klye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 204 people named Klye (5 women and girls, 199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 496,499 babies since 1880, Klye is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 611 babies recorded by SSA was a Klye (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 Klye
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 Klye and names like it
- Compare Klye and KyleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKlye peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Klye since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Klye.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Klye alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.