Kyl
Kyl was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 81 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,532, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1993, the peak
Kyl peaked in 1993, when 15 boys were given it, #4,138 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #13,532 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,526 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,614 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,722 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,138 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,950 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,848 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,625 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,578 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,683 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | #5,302 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyl has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyl, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Kyl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Kyl (46 women and girls, 253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kyl rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,151 babies since 1880, Kyl is the fourth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 39 babies recorded by SSA was a Kyl (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 Kyl
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 Kyl and names like it
- Compare Kyl and KielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKyl peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kyl.
- Names starting with KMost given first.