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Kyair vs Kyaire

American parents have registered 2,598 Kyaires since 1880, against 835 Kyairs. Kyaire is still ahead, with 886 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyair against Kyaire, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyair Kyaire

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 27 years in which either name was published, Kyaire for 24 years and Kyair for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kyair Kyaire
Total US births 8352,598
Most in one year 124886
Babies in 2025 118886
Estimated living today 8302,600
Median age today 31
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,458th boys367th boys
Rank in 2025 1,492nd367th
First recorded 20001999
Girls / boys 0 / 83558 / 2,540

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 Kyairs alive today are over 3; half the Kyaires are over 1. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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