Meaning not yet researched.
Kyng: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #874 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #874 in 2018; #1,684 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyng in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,684 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #874.
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Kyng: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 boys in 2025. Peak: #874 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 256 (2021).
In 2025, 98 US boys were named Kyng, making it the 1,684th most common boys’ name of the year, down 131 places from #1,553 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 113 boys named Kyng in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #874, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 256, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,595 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyng in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 8 babies. In all, 2,367 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,246 babies named Kyng.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,985 US boys were named Kyng; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 256. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,429 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyng ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,167 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include King (37,890 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 Kyng 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,167 | #858 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,304 | #818 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,347 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,391 | #1,078 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,613 | #1,335 |
| New York | 6 | #1,669 | #1,423 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 98 | #1,684 |
| 2024 | — | — | 113 | #1,553 |
| 2023 | — | — | 147 | #1,304 |
| 2022 | — | — | 213 | #1,039 |
| 2021 | — | — | 256 | #899 |
| 2020 | — | — | 256 | #885 |
| 2019 | — | — | 251 | #877 |
| 2018 | — | — | 250 | #874 |
| 2017 | — | — | 216 | #962 |
| 2016 | — | — | 185 | #1,070 |
| 2015 | — | — | 101 | #1,595 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,775 |
| 2013 | — | — | 66 | #2,057 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,701 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,852 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,780 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #7,061 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,938 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #6,903 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,221 |
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).