Meaning not yet researched.
Kiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #503 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #503 in 1983; #11,400 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,400 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #503.
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Kiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #503 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 279 (1983).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kiel, making it the 11,400th most common boys’ name of the year, up 330 places from #11,730 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Kiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #503, reached in 1983. That year also had the most boys given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #11,476 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiel in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 2,535 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,529 babies named Kiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 99 US boys were named Kiel; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Keil, Kial and Keol are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keil (317), Kial (20), Keol (16), Kiyel (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kiel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,400 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,730 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,366 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,461 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,314 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,847 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,425 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,402 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,517 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #11,476 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,323 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,083 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,821 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,622 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,504 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,827 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,331 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,308 |
| 2005 | — | — | 20 | #4,400 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,949 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,684 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #3,984 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,792 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,507 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,591 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,222 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,011 |
| 1996 | — | — | 42 | #2,063 |
| 1995 | — | — | 51 | #1,749 |
| 1994 | — | — | 55 | #1,655 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,622 | 58 | #1,567 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,557 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,602 |
| 1990 | — | — | 73 | #1,300 |
| 1989 | — | — | 81 | #1,190 |
| 1988 | — | — | 85 | #1,080 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,277 | 122 | #848 |
| 1986 | — | — | 183 | #663 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,535 | 221 | #591 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,251 | 262 | #532 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,643 | 279 | #503 |
| 1982 | — | — | 194 | #623 |
| 1981 | — | — | 68 | #1,107 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,340 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,576 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,810 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,402 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,217 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,005 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,959 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,132 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,256 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,632 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,410 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,525 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,699 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,365 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,377 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).