Kyng
Kyng was given to 98 boys in 2025, #1,684 among boys’ names; 2,367 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Kyng and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 5 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kyng by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kyng?
#1,684 among boys’ names, 2025
Kyng fell from #1,595 in 2015 to #1,684 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 52.7 to 57.4 per million.
256 babies in 2020, the peak
Kyng peaked in 2020, when 256 boys were given it, #885 among boys’ names. The 98 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,684 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,553 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,304 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 213 | #1,039 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 256 | #899 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 256 | #885 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 251 | #877 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 250 | #874 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 216 | #962 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,070 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,595 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,056 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,700 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,778 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,056 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,931 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,899 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,215 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kyng a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kyng has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kyng: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kyng, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,367 Americans ever recorded as Kyng. The median Kyng alive today is 7 years old; half are between 5 and 9.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,220 |
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.
Where are babies named Kyng born?
The states with the most babies named Kyng are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,613 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,167 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,304 | 2.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,669 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,391 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,347 | 0.8× |
Where Kyng is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kyng is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2006 it was given 2.2 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 Kyng with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kyng?
Kyng is a less common spelling of King: SSA has recorded 2,367 Kyng and 37,890 King since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 40,492 babies since 1880, Kyng is the second most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 884 babies (11%), again the second 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 Kyng
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 Kyng and names like it
- Compare Kyng and KingBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKyng peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kyng since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kyng.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kyng alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.