girls:
30 births since 1983
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1961
#2531 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1961
#5321 (31st percentile)
The name Kiel is the #5,321 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,523 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 31.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,531 (44.8% percentile) for all time with 2,493 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1983.
Kiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Kiel is available in 57 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (57 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kiel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kiel reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 35.7% percentile (ranked #442) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 150 births per million (ranked 35.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kiel ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kiel reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #772) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kiel".
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