Meaning not yet researched.
Kyson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 648 in 2025. Its best rank was #418 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #418 in 2023; #471 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kyson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#471 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #418.
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Kyson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 648 boys in 2025. Peak: #418 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 758 (2023).
In 2025, 648 US boys were named Kyson, making it the 471st most common boys’ name of the year, down 6 places from #465 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 667 boys named Kyson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #418, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 758. For comparison, it was #531 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kyson in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 9 babies. In all, 9,961 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,769 babies named Kyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,578 US boys were named Kyson; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 758. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,636 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kyson ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #178 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kysen (1,622 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyzen, Kycen and Keison 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: Kyzen (611), Kycen (359), Keison (143), Kysin (128), Kyeson (98), Kysean (97), Kisen (72), Kison (69), Keyson (57), Kesan (39), Keson (36), Kysan (35), and more.
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 Kyson 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 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 33 | #178 | #258 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #211 | #264 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #252 | — |
| Kentucky | 21 | #259 | #291 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #260 | #602 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #261 | #324 |
| Missouri | 26 | #265 | #431 |
| Kansas | 14 | #269 | #377 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #273 | #214 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #318 | #279 |
| Georgia | 38 | #325 | #337 |
| Ohio | 36 | #325 | #432 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #356 | #357 |
| Iowa | 10 | #359 | #369 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #364 | #366 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #389 | #580 |
| Indiana | 17 | #424 | #401 |
| Florida | 39 | #472 | #940 |
| Texas | 70 | #483 | #545 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #550 | #729 |
| Washington | 11 | #622 | #674 |
| New York | 23 | #650 | #1,558 |
| Colorado | 8 | #655 | #504 |
| Illinois | 14 | #666 | #570 |
| Maryland | 7 | #667 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #691 | #901 |
| Arizona | 9 | #702 | #451 |
| Virginia | 10 | #710 | #849 |
| Michigan | 10 | #748 | #856 |
| California | 28 | #854 | #835 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #875 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #880 | #613 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 648 | #471 |
| 2024 | — | — | 667 | #465 |
| 2023 | — | — | 758 | #418 |
| 2022 | — | — | 644 | #482 |
| 2021 | — | — | 634 | #470 |
| 2020 | — | — | 644 | #461 |
| 2019 | — | — | 689 | #443 |
| 2018 | — | — | 622 | #467 |
| 2017 | — | — | 713 | #433 |
| 2016 | — | — | 559 | #528 |
| 2015 | — | — | 536 | #531 |
| 2014 | — | — | 413 | #638 |
| 2013 | — | — | 338 | #703 |
| 2012 | — | — | 335 | #709 |
| 2011 | — | — | 305 | #744 |
| 2010 | — | — | 259 | #827 |
| 2009 | — | — | 228 | #907 |
| 2008 | — | — | 215 | #943 |
| 2007 | — | — | 167 | #1,094 |
| 2006 | — | — | 116 | #1,384 |
| 2005 | — | — | 70 | #1,849 |
| 2004 | — | — | 73 | #1,738 |
| 2003 | — | — | 62 | #1,898 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,058 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,328 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,557 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,923 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,659 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,822 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,115 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,450 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,294 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,603 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,237 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,960 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,625 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,493 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,624 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,536 |
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).