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Kyng vs Kynnedi

American parents have registered 2,367 Kyngs since 1880, against 1,401 Kynnedis. Kyng is still ahead, with 98 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyng Kynnedi

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 30 years in which either name was published, Kynnedi for 18 years and Kyng for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyng Kynnedi
Total US births 2,3671,401
Most in one year 256108
Babies in 2025 9826
Estimated living today 2,4001,400
Median age today 610
Peak year 20202019
Best rank 882nd boys1,864th girls
Rank in 2025 1,677th4,987th
First recorded 20061996
Girls / boys 0 / 2,3671,401 / 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 Kynnedis alive today are over 10; half the Kyngs are over 6. That is 4 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: Kyng and Kynnedi.