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Kyndal vs Kyng

American parents have registered 4,827 Kyndals since 1880, against 2,367 Kyngs. But in 2025 it was Kyng that was commoner, 98 babies to 39.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyndal Kyng

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 48 years in which either name was published, Kyndal for 38 years and Kyng for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyndal Kyng
Total US births 4,8272,367
Most in one year 282256
Babies in 2025 3998
Estimated living today 4,8002,400
Median age today 166
Peak year 20112020
Best rank 934th girls882nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,780th1,677th
First recorded 19692006
Girls / boys 4,688 / 1390 / 2,367

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 Kyndals alive today are over 16; half the Kyngs are over 6. That is 10 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: Kyndal and Kyng.