girls:
540 births since 1964
#5176 (9th percentile)
boys:
42 births since 1985
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
582 births since 1964
#7157 (7th percentile)
The name Kindle is the #7,157 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 582 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,176 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 540 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1985.
Kindle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Kindle is available in 48 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (46 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Kindle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kindle reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #914) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kindle ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 21.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kindle reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #876) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kindle".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kindle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kindle is pronounced as KIHN-duhl, which has 2 syllables.
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