Klyde

Peak · boys
2020 · 31 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
297
since 2009

Klyde over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Klyde has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#5,04519
2024#3,98627
2023#4,34324
2022#5,01919
2021#5,11018
2020#3,49731
2019#4,33723
2018#5,10618
2017#3,58630
2016#5,12418
2015#5,05818
2014#5,48516
2013#6,24113
2012#8,8648
2011#7,50210
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First appearance
2009

The first year at least five boys were named Klyde! It came in at #12,491, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2009–2010, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Klyde is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Klyde in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Klyde
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,059 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #5,045)
  • 1,548 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #5,045)
  • 13 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #5,045)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2009
  • Peaked 2020 at #3,497 (31 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 55,680
  • Highest: 1 in 55,680 boys born in 2020 were named Klyde (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 51.9% of all boys named Klyde (154) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s5#12,491 (2009)#12,491
2010s154#3,586 (2017)#5,700
2020s138#3,497 (2020)#4,500

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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