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Kyrell vs Kyren

American parents have registered 4,085 Kyrens since 1880, against 930 Kyrells. Kyren is still ahead, with 504 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyrell Kyren

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 38 years in which either name was published, Kyren for 33 years and Kyrell for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kyrell Kyren
Total US births 9304,085
Most in one year 68504
Babies in 2025 68504
Estimated living today 9204,000
Median age today 138
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 2,125th boys582nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,125th582nd
First recorded 19861990
Girls / boys 0 / 93089 / 3,996

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 Kyrens are over 8. That is 5 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 Kyrell Kyren
England and Wales 207404

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: Kyrell and Kyren.