Kyle
Kyle is ranked 439th among boys in 2024 (716 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1990.
- Rank in 2024
- #439down 20 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7160.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 199022,710 births
- Best rank
- #18in 1990
- Since 1881
- 494,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
485,170 boys have been named Kyle in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 22,710 births — 1.1% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 716 births in 2024, against 22,710 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 127 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 8,915 girls have also been given it, 1.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kyle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 55 | |
| 1900s | 79 | |
| 1910s | 449 | |
| 1920s | 814 | |
| 1930s | 901 | |
| 1940s | 1,155 | |
| 1950s | 5,788 | |
| 1960s | 16,579 | |
| 1970s | 32,652 | |
| 1980s | 141,950 | |
| 1990s | 180,218 | |
| 2000s | 76,153 | |
| 2010s | 24,128 | |
| 2020s | 4,230 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Kyle was the 18th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Kyle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cylepeak 1990
- Brandanpeak 1993
- Johnathonpeak 1990
- Brandinpeak 1988
- Jarredpeak 1989
- Terellpeak 1994
- Jonathonpeak 1990
- Brandenpeak 1992
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.