Kyrie

Where Kyrie comes from

Kyrie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1986
    First appearance
    #5,926 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Kyrie Kristmanson born
    Canadian singer
  3. 1992
    Kyrie Irving born
    American basketball player
  4. 2012
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2017
    Peak, #215
    1,780 babies named Kyrie — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kyrie Irving · American basketball player, born 1992
  • Kyrie Kristmanson · Canadian singer, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.