first name
KYLE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 436,151 people named Kyle, 83% reported their origin as White, 4.6% as Black and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kyle peaked in 1990, when 22,947 babies got the name.
At least 494,713 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kyle by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #33. The largest share of babies named Kyle, 55.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kyle is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kyle has been most common in Alaska (2.3×), Nevada (1.9×), and New Hampshire (1.8×), and least common in Mississippi (0.32×).
488,920 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Kyle
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kyle, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kyle ranks #2,081 of 156,621, with 16,906 people. See Kyle as a last name
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