Kyle
Kyle was given to 594 boys in 2025, #509 among boys’ names; 494,713 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 467,000 Americans named Kyle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kyle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kyle is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “narrows” (caol).
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).
/kaɪl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kyle?
#509 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyle fell from #174 in 2015 to #509 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.2 to 0.35 per 1,000.
22,947 babies in 1990, the peak
Kyle peaked in 1990, when 22,947 babies were given it (22,710 boys, #18 among boys’ names). The 611 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 594 | #509 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 721 | #439 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 758 | #417 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 808 | #394 | 0.46 |
| 2021 | 899 | #363 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 1,056 | #313 | 0.61 |
| 2019 | 1,386 | #262 | 0.77 |
| 2018 | 1,682 | #223 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | 1,842 | #210 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 2,039 | #199 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,394 | #174 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,388 | #179 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 2,589 | #155 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 2,968 | #127 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 3,269 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 2010 | 3,581 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 2009 | 4,180 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 2008 | 4,705 | #97 | 2.3 |
| 2007 | 5,355 | #86 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6,150 | #81 | 3.0 |
| 2005 | 6,688 | #69 | 3.3 |
| 2004 | 7,826 | #55 | 3.9 |
| 2003 | 8,651 | #53 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10,064 | #40 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 10,568 | #40 | 5.4 |
| 2000 | 11,969 | #37 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13,774 | #28 | 7.2 |
| 1998 | 15,277 | #24 | 8.0 |
| 1997 | 15,919 | #24 | 8.4 |
| 1996 | 15,600 | #25 | 8.2 |
| 1995 | 16,761 | #24 | 8.8 |
| 1994 | 18,399 | #24 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 19,454 | #23 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 20,714 | #22 | 10.4 |
| 1991 | 21,610 | #21 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 22,710 | #18 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 20,882 | #20 | 10.4 |
| 1988 | 19,895 | #21 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 19,862 | #22 | 10.6 |
| 1986 | 19,315 | #23 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 16,523 | #27 | 8.9 |
| 1984 | 12,546 | #34 | 7.0 |
| 1983 | 12,372 | #34 | 6.9 |
| 1982 | 8,207 | #47 | 4.5 |
| 1981 | 6,570 | #52 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 5,775 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1979 | 5,449 | #56 | 3.2 |
| 1978 | 4,517 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 3,505 | #79 | 2.1 |
| 1976 | 3,308 | #80 | 2.1 |
| 1975 | 2,833 | #88 | 1.8 |
| 1974 | 2,598 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 1973 | 2,372 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1972 | 2,477 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 2,823 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 2,763 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 1969 | 2,134 | #143 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 1,943 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 2,139 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 1,954 | #146 | 1.1 |
| 1965 | 1,169 | #210 | 0.63 |
| 1964 | 1,478 | #191 | 0.74 |
| 1963 | 1,628 | #180 | 0.80 |
| 1962 | 1,712 | #176 | 0.83 |
| 1961 | 1,159 | #232 | 0.55 |
| 1960 | 1,263 | #220 | 0.59 |
| 1959 | 1,146 | #237 | 0.54 |
| 1958 | 1,011 | #248 | 0.48 |
| 1957 | 1,033 | #241 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 470 | #344 | 0.22 |
| 1955 | 404 | #359 | 0.20 |
| 1954 | 402 | #360 | 0.20 |
| 1953 | 360 | #357 | 0.18 |
| 1952 | 381 | #351 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 343 | #368 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 239 | #430 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 144 | #563 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 130 | #584 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 151 | #549 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 107 | #622 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 81 | #670 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 96 | #628 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 121 | #578 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 112 | #589 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 119 | #546 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 94 | #614 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 101 | #572 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 77 | #691 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 106 | #563 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 96 | #593 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 114 | #541 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 87 | #647 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 74 | #702 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 78 | #699 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 79 | #675 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 89 | #660 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 80 | #693 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 74 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 102 | #624 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 85 | #689 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 84 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 88 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 68 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 81 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 67 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 85 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 52 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 67 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 75 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 62 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 65 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 42 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 35 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,084 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 15 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 11 | #928 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 10 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 10 | #826 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 9 | #880 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 10 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 7 | #964 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 7 | #982 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,112 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 7 | #907 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,051 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 7 | #936 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 10 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 7 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 7 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 9 | #730 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 5 | #948 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 494,713 Americans recorded as Kyle, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 594 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kyle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyle, and how old are they?
467,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 494,713 Americans ever recorded as Kyle. The median Kyle alive today is 34 years old; half are between 27 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 436,151 people named Kyle (7,393 women and girls, 428,758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 469,654 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 368 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 262,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,600 |
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 Kyle born?
The states with the most babies named Kyle are California, New York and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 76 | #425 | 0.8× |
| New York | 64 | #294 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 54 | #584 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 45 | #430 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 27 | #404 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #434 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #552 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 18 | #538 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #459 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 17 | #422 | 1.4× |
Where Kyle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyle is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Kyle 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 504,106 babies since 1880, Kyle is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 611 of their 1,471 babies (42%), the second 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 Kyle
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 Kyle and names like it
- Compare Kyle and KyloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKyle peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyle since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kyle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kyle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kyle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.