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Kyna vs Kyndal

American parents have registered 4,827 Kyndals since 1880, against 1,062 Kynas. Kyndal is still ahead, with 39 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyna against Kyndal, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyna Kyndal

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 74 years in which either name was published, Kyndal for 40 years and Kyna for 34 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kyna Kyndal
Total US births 1,0624,827
Most in one year 68282
Babies in 2025 under 539
Estimated living today 1,0004,800
Median age today 4316
Peak year 19772011
Best rank 1,576th girls934th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,780th
First recorded 19511969
Girls / boys 1,062 / 04,688 / 139

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 Kynas alive today are over 43; half the Kyndals are over 16. That is 27 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: Kyna and Kyndal.