Meaning not yet researched.
Kye: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 136 in 2025. Its best rank was #693 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #693 in 2016; #1,369 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Kye in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,369 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #693.
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Kye: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 136 boys in 2025. Peak: #693 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 356 (2016).
In 2025, 136 US boys were named Kye, making it the 1,369th most common boys’ name of the year, down 168 places from #1,201 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 171 boys named Kye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #693, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 356. For comparison, it was #981 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kye in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 9 babies. In all, 5,904 US babies have been given the name, 5.9% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,362 babies named Kye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,632 US boys were named Kye; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 356. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,559 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kye ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #474 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kia (7,809 babies since 1880), Kya (6,385 babies since 1880), Kiya (4,157 babies since 1880) and Kyah (3,141 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kye in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #474 | #450 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #698 | #713 |
| Indiana | 8 | #744 | #773 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #760 | #611 |
| Virginia | 7 | #936 | #1,072 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,154 | #789 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,189 | #1,152 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,203 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,561 | #1,008 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,134 | 136 | #1,369 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,584 | 171 | #1,201 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,003 | 240 | #942 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,368 | 277 | #870 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,696 | 260 | #889 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,776 | 284 | #815 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,935 | 288 | #797 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,006 | 310 | #760 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,756 | 310 | #760 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,657 | 356 | #693 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,536 | 211 | #981 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,601 | 173 | #1,105 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,662 | 148 | #1,213 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,807 | 154 | #1,181 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,819 | 157 | #1,151 |
| 2010 | — | — | 148 | #1,206 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,536 | 150 | #1,208 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,592 | 122 | #1,398 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,345 | 123 | #1,363 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,511 | 108 | #1,442 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,339 | 127 | #1,251 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,605 | 94 | #1,464 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,810 | 105 | #1,322 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,910 | 109 | #1,249 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,990 | 71 | #1,652 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,598 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,184 | 51 | #1,918 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,806 | 41 | #2,223 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,073 | 46 | #1,984 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,723 | 35 | #2,317 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,902 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,072 | 42 | #2,000 |
| 1993 | — | — | 43 | #1,921 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,991 | 42 | #1,946 |
| 1991 | — | — | 44 | #1,816 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,109 | 34 | #2,147 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,049 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,972 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,300 | 35 | #1,852 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,197 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,104 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,580 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,246 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,410 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,841 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #3,037 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,710 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,520 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,421 | 12 | #3,297 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,386 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,563 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,412 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,588 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,499 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,186 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,806 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,191 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,254 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,269 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,200 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,956 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,528 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,845 | 6 | #3,871 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,444 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,439 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,887 |
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).