Kye
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #1,366 for boys in 2025, 136 births
Given to boys 94.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 356 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,557since 1956
Kye over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #1,366 | 136 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #1,196 | 171 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #940 | 240 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #867 | 277 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #887 | 260 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #815 | 284 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #797 | 288 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #760 | 310 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #758 | 310 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #693 | 356 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #977 | 211 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | #1,102 | 173 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #1,211 | 148 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,180 | 154 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,149 | 157 |
| 2010 | — | #1,206 | 148 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,202 | 150 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,359 | 123 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #1,438 | 108 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #1,245 | 127 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #1,460 | 94 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #1,319 | 105 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,244 | 109 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #1,648 | 71 |
| 2000 | — | #1,585 | 74 | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,299 | 35 |
| 1995 | — | #1,887 | 45 | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | — | #1,907 | 43 | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | — | #1,798 | 44 | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | — | #2,027 | 35 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,949 | 33 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #1,829 | 35 |
| 1986 | — | #2,161 | 26 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,071 | 27 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,208 | 23 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kye! It came in at #2,798, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kye is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#298 · 1 in 1,192
- Arkansas#320 · 1 in 1,307
- West Virginia#324 · 1 in 1,563
- New Mexico#332 · 1 in 1,397
- Kentucky#390 · 1 in 1,983
Best ever in a state: #261 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #298 | 17 | 1 in 1,192 |
| Arkansas | #320 | 11 | 1 in 1,307 |
| West Virginia | #324 | 5 | 1 in 1,563 |
| New Mexico | #332 | 6 | 1 in 1,397 |
| Kentucky | #390 | 11 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Louisiana | #402 | 13 | 1 in 1,889 |
| Indiana | #419 | 16 | 1 in 2,223 |
| Nebraska | #440 | 5 | 1 in 1,990 |
| Alabama | #487 | 9 | 1 in 2,567 |
| Tennessee | #525 | 12 | 1 in 3,017 |
| Mississippi | #529 | 5 | 1 in 2,687 |
| North Carolina | #530 | 16 | 1 in 3,248 |
| Georgia | #542 | 16 | 1 in 3,361 |
| Oregon | #554 | 6 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Missouri | #580 | 9 | 1 in 3,512 |
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 3,132 |
| Utah | #614 | 6 | 1 in 3,496 |
| Ohio | #623 | 14 | 1 in 4,237 |
| Wisconsin | #625 | 7 | 1 in 3,846 |
| Texas | #667 | 39 | 1 in 4,749 |
| Colorado | #771 | 5 | 1 in 5,512 |
| Arizona | #804 | 6 | 1 in 6,007 |
| Florida | #827 | 15 | 1 in 6,529 |
| Washington | #847 | 6 | 1 in 6,173 |
| Illinois | #855 | 10 | 1 in 6,417 |
| Virginia | #863 | 6 | 1 in 6,936 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 9,872 |
| California | #1,140 | 18 | 1 in 12,427 |
| New York | #1,314 | 8 | 1 in 12,500 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kye
- 170 spots since 2024 (#1,196 → #1,366)
- 551 spots since 2020 (#815 → #1,366)
- 389 spots since 2015 (#977 → #1,366)
- Biggest jump: 284 spots in 2016 (#977 → #693)
- Biggest drop: 256 spots in 2024 (#940 → #1,196)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2016 at #693 (356 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2015–2023
- Highest: 1 in 5,331 boys born in 2016 were named Kye (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,559 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.6% of all boys named Kye (2,255) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23 | #2,798 (1956) | #3,121 |
| 1960s | 54 | #2,848 (1962) | #3,493 |
| 1970s | 109 | #2,358 (1974) | #3,271 |
| 1980s | 242 | #1,829 (1987) | #2,380 |
| 1990s | 423 | #1,798 (1991) | #1,998 |
| 2000s | 1,083 | #1,202 (2009) | #1,389 |
| 2010s | 2,255 | #693 (2016) | #983 |
| 2020s | 1,368 | #815 (2020) | #1,012 |
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.
Kye in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 136,309 of them was named Kye, which outranked 55.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,988Zoiey14
- #7,988Zylee14
- #7,988Zyrah14
- #8,393Kye13
- #8,393Aadvika13
- #8,393Aanshi13
- #8,393Aara13
- #8,875Abcde12
- #8,875Aberdeen12
- #8,875Abigal12
Tied with 481 names at #8,393; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,331 of them was named Kye, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.