Kyler
Kyler was given to 790 boys in 2025, #404 among boys’ names; 41,378 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 40,700 Americans named Kyler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kyler mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kyler is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “archer” (Cuyler) and “wild boar” (Keiler).
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and later usage.”
An American anglicization of Dutch Cuyler “archer” and German Keiler “wild boar”.
The surname is quite rare. The given name may be a recent coinage based on Kyle and Tyler.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kyler?
#404 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyler fell from #285 in 2015 to #404 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.68 to 0.46 per 1,000.
1,728 babies in 2019, the peak
Kyler peaked in 2019, when 1,728 babies were given it (1,611 boys, #236 among boys’ names). The 833 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 790 | #404 | 0.46 |
| 2024 | 946 | #357 | 0.55 |
| 2023 | 1,035 | #322 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 1,365 | #252 | 0.78 |
| 2021 | 1,470 | #242 | 0.84 |
| 2020 | 1,466 | #244 | 0.85 |
| 2019 | 1,611 | #236 | 0.90 |
| 2018 | 1,138 | #303 | 0.63 |
| 2017 | 1,073 | #319 | 0.58 |
| 2016 | 1,192 | #299 | 0.63 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,294 | #285 | 0.68 |
| 2014 | 1,231 | #288 | 0.64 |
| 2013 | 1,270 | #276 | 0.67 |
| 2012 | 1,329 | #266 | 0.70 |
| 2011 | 1,371 | #252 | 0.72 |
| 2010 | 1,286 | #269 | 0.67 |
| 2009 | 1,285 | #267 | 0.65 |
| 2008 | 1,269 | #271 | 0.62 |
| 2007 | 1,234 | #278 | 0.59 |
| 2006 | 1,301 | #266 | 0.63 |
| 2005 | 1,176 | #283 | 0.59 |
| 2004 | 1,175 | #274 | 0.59 |
| 2003 | 1,087 | #287 | 0.55 |
| 2002 | 1,107 | #277 | 0.57 |
| 2001 | 1,020 | #293 | 0.52 |
| 2000 | 963 | #306 | 0.49 |
| 1999 | 959 | #298 | 0.50 |
| 1998 | 885 | #314 | 0.46 |
| 1997 | 855 | #312 | 0.45 |
| 1996 | 847 | #311 | 0.45 |
| 1995 | 824 | #317 | 0.43 |
| 1994 | 563 | #406 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 509 | #433 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 427 | #487 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 322 | #565 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 264 | #621 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 198 | #695 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 177 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 126 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 104 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,866 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,142 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,687 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,661 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 41,378 Americans recorded as Kyler, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 girls and 790 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kyler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyler, and how old are they?
40,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 41,378 Americans ever recorded as Kyler. The median Kyler alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 30,518 people named Kyler (1,858 women and girls, 28,660 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,800 |
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 Kyler born?
The states with the most babies named Kyler are Texas, Florida and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 93 | #417 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 47 | #418 | 0.7× |
| California | 41 | #674 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 33 | #362 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #358 | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #159 | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 31 | #288 | 1.2× |
| New York | 30 | #538 | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 27 | #213 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 26 | #420 | 1.0× |
Where Kyler is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyler is most over-represented in Utah: since 1922 it was given 2.8 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 Kyler 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 46,510 babies since 1880, Kyler is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 833 of their 940 babies (89%), 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 Kyler
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 Kyler and names like it
- Compare Kyler and KylarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKyler peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyler since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kyler: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kyler.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kyler alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.