girls:
8.9k births since 1915
#1723 (70th percentile)
boys:
484.4k births since 1881
#66 (99th percentile)
overall:
493.3k births since 1881
#133 (98th percentile)
The name Kyle is the #133 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 493,300 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 98.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #66 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 484,416 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #1,723 (69.9% percentile) for all time with 8,884 births since 1915.
Kyle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Kyle is available in 134 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (134 years for boys and 85 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 Kyle has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kyle reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 97.8% percentile (ranked #18) with 10,552 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 10,552 births per million (ranked 97.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1991, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kyle ranks #385 for boys (57.8% percentile) with 412 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kyle reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 37.3% percentile (ranked #503) with 170 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 170 births per million (ranked 37.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kyle ranks #922 for girls (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 10.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kyle".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kyle is pronounced as kail, which has 1 syllables.
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