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Kyra vs Kyrell

American parents have registered 38,308 Kyras since 1880, against 930 Kyrells. Kyra is still ahead, with 329 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyra against Kyrell, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyra Kyrell

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

Kyra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kyra had 329 and Kyrell had 68.

Side by side

  Kyra Kyrell
Total US births 38,308930
Most in one year 1,91868
Babies in 2025 32968
Estimated living today 38,000920
Median age today 2213
Peak year 20052025
Best rank 179th girls2,125th boys
Rank in 2025 827th2,125th
First recorded 19191986
Girls / boys 38,285 / 230 / 930

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 Kyras alive today are over 22; half the Kyrells are over 13. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kyra Kyrell
England and Wales 4,432207

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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