Kye
Kye was given to 136 boys in 2025, #1,369 among boys’ names; 5,904 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,800 Americans named Kye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kye mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kye is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
Possibly a modern phonetic rendering of Kai, or a short form of Kyle and Kyler.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kye?
#1,369 among boys’ names, 2025
Kye fell from #981 in 2015 to #1,369 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
369 babies in 2016, the peak
Kye peaked in 2016, when 369 babies were given it (356 boys, #693 among boys’ names). The 142 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,369 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,201 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 240 | #942 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 277 | #870 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 260 | #889 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 284 | #815 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 288 | #797 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 310 | #760 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 310 | #760 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 356 | #693 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 211 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 173 | #1,105 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 148 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,181 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,151 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,206 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 150 | #1,208 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,363 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,442 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,250 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,462 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,321 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,246 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 71 | #1,648 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,594 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 51 | #1,915 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,220 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,312 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,142 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,044 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 33 | #1,967 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,409 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,036 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,708 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,384 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,497 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,184 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,805 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,527 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,870 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,886 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,904 Americans recorded as Kye, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 136 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kye, and how old are they?
5,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,904 Americans ever recorded as Kye. The median Kye alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,864 people named Kye (842 women and girls, 4,022 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 133 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 527 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,280 |
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 Kye born?
The states with the most babies named Kye are Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,154 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #474 | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #698 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 8 | #744 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,561 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #936 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,189 | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #760 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,203 | 0.4× |
Where Kye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kye is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1956 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Kye 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 13,127 babies since 1880, Kye is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 142 of their 339 babies (42%), again the 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 Kye
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 Kye and names like it
- Compare Kye and CyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKye peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kye since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Kye: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kye.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kye alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.