Humanverse

Kyree vs Kyrell

American parents have registered 9,121 Kyrees since 1880, against 930 Kyrells. Kyree is still ahead, with 339 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyree against Kyrell, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyree 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

Kyree has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Kyree had 8 and Kyrell had 5.

Side by side

  Kyree Kyrell
Total US births 9,121930
Most in one year 51068
Babies in 2025 33968
Estimated living today 9,000920
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20172025
Best rank 577th boys2,125th boys
Rank in 2025 781st2,125th
First recorded 19791986
Girls / boys 919 / 8,2020 / 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 Kyrells alive today are over 13; half the Kyrees are over 10. That is 3 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 Kyree Kyrell
England and Wales 125207

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: Kyree and Kyrell.