Kyel
Kyel was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,016 among boys’ names; 304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyel?
#6,016 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyel rose from #8,422 in 2015 to #6,016 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 8.8 per million.
15 babies in 2025, the peak
Kyel peaked in 2025, when 15 boys were given it, #6,016 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,016 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,074 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,022 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,690 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,386 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,486 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,410 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,570 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,534 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,422 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #11,520 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,271 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,180 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,476 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,581 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,497 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,494 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,749 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,183 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,757 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,414 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,955 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,989 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,823 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,792 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,385 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,602 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,900 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,531 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,405 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,336 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,015 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,209 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,292 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,481 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,969 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,922 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 304 Americans recorded as Kyel, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Kyel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyel, and how old are they?
An estimated 298 Americans named Kyel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 275 people named Kyel (30 women and girls, 245 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Kyel?
Kyel is a less common spelling of Kiel: SSA has recorded 304 Kyel and 2,535 Kiel since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,151 babies since 1880, Kyel is the second most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 39 babies (38%), the most given that year.
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 Kyel
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 Kyel and names like it
- Compare Kyel and KielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKyel peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kyel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.