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Kyran vs Kyro

American parents have registered 3,282 Kyrans since 1880, against 2,990 Kyros. But in 2025 it was Kyro that was commoner, 463 babies to 68.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyran against Kyro, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyran Kyro

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 56 years in which either name was published, Kyran for 48 years and Kyro for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyran Kyro
Total US births 3,2822,990
Most in one year 195464
Babies in 2025 68463
Estimated living today 3,2003,000
Median age today 143
Peak year 20122025
Best rank 1,030th boys611th boys
Rank in 2025 2,125th611th
First recorded 19332002
Girls / boys 133 / 3,14913 / 2,977

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 Kyrans alive today are over 14; half the Kyros are over 3. That is 11 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kyran Kyro
England and Wales 2,543727
Scotland 18951
Ireland 16515

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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