How rare is the name Kyler?

30,518 people in the United States have the first name Kyler, about 1 in 9,897. It ranks #1,243 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KYLER

#1,243

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
30,518
About
1 in 9,897
This common or more
73%
Who bears it

Of the 30,518 people named Kyler, 74.8% reported their origin as White, 7.6% as Black and 7.1% as two or more races. 93.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kyler peaked in 2019, when 1,728 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19222025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
1,728
In 2025*
833 ▼52%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 41,378 babies have been given the name since 1922. 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.

Kyler by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #511. The largest share of babies named Kyler, 46.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1920s#13,8275
1940s#12,5745
1950s#14,8235
1960s#9,66842
1970s#7,822110
1980s#2,320902
1990s#7516,881
2000s#53812,279
2010s#51113,642
2020s#5287,507
Greatest Generation 1901–270%
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–800.4%
Millennials 1981–9611.7%
Generation Z 1997–1246.9%
2013 and later40.9%

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 Kyler is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kyler has been most common in Utah (5.1×), Idaho (4.4×), and Wyoming (2.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.15×).

38,405 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.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kyler, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Kyler ranks #18,033 of 156,621, with 1,525 people. See Kyler as a last name

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