Meaning not yet researched.
Kohl: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,333 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,333 in 2001; #5,507 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kohl in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,507 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,333.
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Kohl: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,333 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 98 (2001).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Kohl, making it the 5,507th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,562 places from #8,069 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 10 boys named Kohl in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,333, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #3,334 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kohl in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 9 babies. In all, 1,759 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 721 babies named Kohl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 196 US boys were named Kohl; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kole (9,855 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kohl 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,507 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,069 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,811 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,021 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,316 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,856 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,854 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,677 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,935 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,843 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,334 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,425 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,305 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,757 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,403 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,765 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,271 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,364 |
| 2007 | — | — | 64 | #2,129 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,388 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,258 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,871 |
| 2003 | — | — | 93 | #1,425 |
| 2002 | — | — | 96 | #1,376 |
| 2001 | — | — | 98 | #1,333 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,439 |
| 1999 | — | — | 73 | #1,540 |
| 1998 | — | — | 69 | #1,555 |
| 1997 | — | — | 60 | #1,664 |
| 1996 | — | — | 57 | #1,684 |
| 1995 | — | — | 60 | #1,572 |
| 1994 | — | — | 66 | #1,460 |
| 1993 | — | — | 53 | #1,673 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,026 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,036 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,288 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,923 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,064 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,430 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,684 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,158 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,196 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,762 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,426 |
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).