Meaning not yet researched.
Kyler: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 790 in 2025. Its best rank was #236 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #236 in 2019; #404 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Kyler in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#404 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #236.
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Kyler: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 790 boys in 2025. Peak: #236 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,611 (2019).
In 2025, 790 US boys were named Kyler, making it the 404th most common boys’ name of the year, down 47 places from #357 in 2024. That is 156 fewer than the 946 boys named Kyler in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #236, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,611. For comparison, it was #285 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyler in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 41,378 US babies have been given the name, 5.8% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,642 babies named Kyler.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,086 US boys were named Kyler; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,611. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyler ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #159 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyle (494,713 babies since 1880), Keller (4,172 babies since 1880), Kylar (3,082 babies since 1880) and Keylor (738 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kylor, Keyler and Keiler 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kylor (505), Keyler (497), Keiler (136), Kieler (64), Keeler (38), Kylier (17), Kiyler (16), Kyeler (11), Kyller (10), Keyller (6), Kyelar (5), Kiler (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 Kyler 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 31 | #159 | #187 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #195 | #140 |
| Alabama | 27 | #213 | #203 |
| Iowa | 18 | #227 | #158 |
| Kentucky | 23 | #241 | #152 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #242 | #182 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #250 | #260 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #251 | #224 |
| Montana | 5 | #263 | #104 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #279 | #117 |
| Tennessee | 31 | #288 | #156 |
| Missouri | 22 | #308 | #235 |
| Indiana | 25 | #313 | #273 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #358 | #287 |
| Georgia | 33 | #362 | #207 |
| Utah | 13 | #363 | #181 |
| Kansas | 10 | #370 | #153 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #382 | #303 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #382 | #147 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #383 | #290 |
| Washington | 18 | #411 | #284 |
| Texas | 83 | #417 | #284 |
| Florida | 47 | #418 | #334 |
| Ohio | 26 | #420 | #281 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #435 | #276 |
| Virginia | 18 | #446 | #357 |
| Colorado | 13 | #450 | #257 |
| Illinois | 24 | #454 | #355 |
| Nevada | 6 | #489 | — |
| Maryland | 10 | #494 | #337 |
| New York | 30 | #538 | #434 |
| Arizona | 13 | #546 | #378 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #669 | #539 |
| California | 41 | #674 | #546 |
| Michigan | 10 | #747 | #299 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #874 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,553 | 790 | #404 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,959 | 946 | #357 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,573 | 1,035 | #322 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,201 | 1,365 | #252 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,935 | 1,470 | #242 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,269 | 1,466 | #244 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,757 | 1,611 | #236 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,494 | 1,138 | #303 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,210 | 1,073 | #319 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,355 | 1,192 | #299 |
| 2015 | 94 | #2,082 | 1,294 | #285 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,063 | 1,231 | #288 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,424 | 1,270 | #276 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,390 | 1,329 | #266 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,248 | 1,371 | #252 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,681 | 1,286 | #269 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,742 | 1,285 | #267 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,599 | 1,269 | #271 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,878 | 1,234 | #278 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,656 | 1,301 | #266 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,239 | 1,176 | #283 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,219 | 1,175 | #274 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,135 | 1,087 | #287 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,514 | 1,107 | #277 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,230 | 1,020 | #293 |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,116 | 963 | #306 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,190 | 959 | #298 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,678 | 885 | #314 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,939 | 855 | #312 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,904 | 847 | #311 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,821 | 824 | #317 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,660 | 563 | #406 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,051 | 509 | #433 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,160 | 427 | #487 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,295 | 322 | #565 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,675 | 264 | #623 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,749 | 198 | #698 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,819 | 177 | #707 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,382 | 126 | #832 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,860 | 104 | #894 |
| 1985 | — | — | 64 | #1,175 |
| 1984 | — | — | 61 | #1,171 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,132 | 45 | #1,412 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,757 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,975 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,836 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,270 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,867 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,299 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,467 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,144 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,420 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,519 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,234 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,905 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,688 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,461 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,939 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,284 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,847 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,364 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,846 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,151 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,787 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,663 |
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).