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Kile vs Kileigh

American parents have registered 1,065 Kiles since 1880, against 661 Kileighs. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kile against Kileigh, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kile Kileigh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Kile for 48 years and Kileigh for 17 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kile Kileigh
Total US births 1,065661
Most in one year 4252
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 990650
Median age today 3219
Peak year 19962009
Best rank 2,047th boys3,189th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19201979
Girls / boys 0 / 1,065661 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kiles alive today are over 32; half the Kileighs are over 19. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kile and Kileigh.