Kyle
The boy's name Kyle has been in the national records since 1881, with 494,713 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 508th. About 468,000 Kyles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kyle boys named Kyle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 494,713
- Estimated living today
- 468,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 18th
- Rank in 2025
- 508th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 8,933 / 485,780
How old the living Kyles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 494,713 babies given the name since 1881, about 468,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 38,000 of them are children and 7,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kyles
- Kyle Walker (born 1990)English association football player
- Kyle MacLachlan (born 1959)American actor
- Kyle Larson (born 1992)American racing driver
- Kyle Chandler (born 1965)American actor
- Kyle Gass (born 1960)American singer and musician
- Kyle Lafferty (born 1987)Northern Irish association footballer
- Kyle Lowry (born 1986)American basketball player
- Kyle Walker-Peters (born 1997)English association football player
People named Kyle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kyle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kyle is most concentrated in Alaska (2.3×), Nevada (1.9×), Vermont (1.9×), New Hampshire (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Kyle peaked:
Kyle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kyle | 28,518 | 38th |
| Scotland boys | Kyle | 9,868 | 5th |
| Ireland boys | Kyle | 4,998 | 32nd |
| New Zealand boys | Kyle | 2,568 | 48th |
| France boys | Kyle | 2,195 | 452nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Kyle | 1,379 | 30th |
| Belgium boys | Kyle | 486 | 380th |
| Switzerland boys | Kyle | 279 | 383rd |
| Poland boys | Kyle | 42 birth registrations | 374th |
| Scotland girls | Kyle | 3 | 582nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kyle: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kyle | 81 | 0.007% | 583rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kyle | 156 | 0.036% | 146th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Kyle | 42 | 0.064% | 72nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kyle is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.06% of children were given it – 40 of them.
Kyle: rank by region
In 2025, Kyle was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Kyle | 806 | 6 |
| Wallonia | Kyle | 317 | 8 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kyle appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (241st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kyle among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Kyle | 33 | 56 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kyle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.