How popular is “Kyle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kyle” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kyle” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kyle” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kyle” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kyle” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kyle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kyle” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1881	5	0.000025949		5	-100%
1888	9	0.000030053		9	-100%
1889	5	0.000017304		5	-100%
1890	5	0.000016589		5	-100%
1891	7	0.000024418		7	-100%
1892	6	0.000017944		6	-100%
1893	7	0.000021524		7	-100%
1894	10	0.000029526		10	-100%
1895	7	0.000019942		7	-100%
1896	6	0.000016784		6	-100%
1899	7	0.000020635		7	-100%
1900	7	0.000015547		7	-100%
1902	7	0.0000181		7	-100%
1903	7	0.000018363		7	-100%
1904	10	0.000024784		10	-100%
1905	9	0.00002123		9	-100%
1906	10	0.00002334		10	-100%
1907	8	0.00001719		8	-100%
1908	10	0.000020465		10	-100%
1909	11	0.000021517		11	-100%
1910	15	0.000025393		15	-100%
1911	11	0.000017073		11	-100%
1912	35	0.000035423		35	-100%
1913	25	0.000021986		25	-100%
1914	42	0.000029654		42	-100%
1915	70	0.000038201	5	65	-86%
1916	62	0.000032051		62	-100%
1917	75	0.000037374		75	-100%
1918	67	0.00003086		67	-100%
1919	52	0.000024642		52	-100%
1920	85	0.000037567		85	-100%
1921	67	0.0000287		67	-100%
1922	81	0.000035384		81	-100%
1923	68	0.000029533		68	-100%
1924	88	0.00003695		88	-100%
1925	84	0.000036		84	-100%
1926	85	0.000037022		85	-100%
1927	102	0.000043978		102	-100%
1928	74	0.00003273		74	-100%
1929	80	0.000036494		80	-100%
1930	89	0.000040031		89	-100%
1931	79	0.000037541		79	-100%
1932	78	0.000036944		78	-100%
1933	74	0.00003701		74	-100%
1934	87	0.000041891		87	-100%
1935	114	0.000054548		114	-100%
1936	102	0.000049096	6	96	-88%
1937	111	0.000052096	5	106	-91%
1938	77	0.000034801		77	-100%
1939	101	0.000045837		101	-100%
1940	94	0.000040822		94	-100%
1941	119	0.000048842		119	-100%
1942	118	0.000043195	6	112	-90%
1943	143	0.000050663	22	121	-69%
1944	101	0.000037545	5	96	-90%
1945	86	0.000032417	5	81	-88%
1946	117	0.000036616	10	107	-83%
1947	162	0.000044971	11	151	-86%
1948	146	0.000042288	16	130	-78%
1949	181	0.00005194	37	144	-59%
1950	341	0.000097335	102	239	-40%
1951	554	0.000150391	211	343	-24%
1952	537	0.00014139	156	381	-42%
1953	513	0.000133121	153	360	-40%
1954	560	0.000140678	158	402	-44%
1955	537	0.000133746	134	403	-50%
1956	656	0.000159106	186	470	-43%
1957	1228	0.000292232	195	1033	-68%
1958	1174	0.000283993	163	1011	-72%
1959	1370	0.000329486	224	1146	-67%
1960	1485	0.000357503	223	1262	-70%
1961	1384	0.000334114	225	1159	-67%
1962	1850	0.000458446	138	1712	-85%
1963	1756	0.000443636	128	1628	-85%
1964	1590	0.000408992	112	1478	-86%
1965	1259	0.000347267	90	1169	-86%
1966	2010	0.000578308	56	1954	-94%
1967	2189	0.000644791	50	2139	-95%
1968	1996	0.00059081	53	1943	-95%
1969	2211	0.0006362	76	2135	-93%
1970	2855	0.000791623	91	2764	-94%
1971	2908	0.000847232	83	2825	-94%
1972	2539	0.000807828	62	2477	-95%
1973	2453	0.00081309	80	2373	-93%
1974	2693	0.000885856	94	2599	-93%
1975	2921	0.000967413	89	2832	-94%
1976	3372	0.001111294	63	3309	-96%
1977	3589	0.001129862	83	3506	-95%
1978	4675	0.001472965	158	4517	-93%
1979	5616	0.001688007	166	5450	-94%
1980	5949	0.001727098	173	5776	-94%
1981	6728	0.00194486	157	6571	-95%
1982	8397	0.002393698	189	8208	-95%
1983	12615	0.003642439	243	12372	-96%
1984	12777	0.003662338	230	12547	-96%
1985	16823	0.0047135	303	16520	-96%
1986	19576	0.005503394	261	19315	-97%
1987	20185	0.005598214	319	19866	-97%
1988	20186	0.005462995	290	19896	-97%
1989	21133	0.005497019	254	20879	-98%
1990	22947	0.005805725	237	22710	-98%
1991	21773	0.005589607	163	21610	-99%
1992	20887	0.00543752	173	20714	-98%
1993	19617	0.005203063	162	19455	-98%
1994	18553	0.004990514	155	18398	-98%
1995	16885	0.004610673	124	16761	-99%
1996	15705	0.004306049	105	15600	-99%
1997	16035	0.004422534	115	15920	-99%
1998	15370	0.004178667	94	15276	-99%
1999	13840	0.003746751	66	13774	-99%
2000	12022	0.003180504	53	11969	-99%
2001	10624	0.002838069	56	10568	-99%
2002	10108	0.002703909	45	10063	-99%
2003	8712	0.002291233	61	8651	-99%
2004	7900	0.002067563	74	7826	-98%
2005	6726	0.001749355	38	6688	-99%
2006	6197	0.001566406	47	6150	-98%
2007	5396	0.001349782	42	5354	-98%
2008	4735	0.001204631	30	4705	-99%
2009	4213	0.001102829	34	4179	-98%
2010	3613	0.000977612	33	3580	-98%
2011	3326	0.000909292	58	3268	-97%
2012	3019	0.000825457	52	2967	-97%
2013	2647	0.000726067	58	2589	-96%
2014	2456	0.000662642	68	2388	-94%
2015	2452	0.000662539	60	2392	-95%
2016	2082	0.000567504	43	2039	-96%
2017	1887	0.000527656	48	1839	-95%
2018	1745	0.000496317	65	1680	-93%
2019	1429	0.000411705	43	1386	-94%
2020	1101	0.000329584	46	1055	-92%
2021	930	0.000274502	33	897	-93%
2022	831	0.00024563	24	807	-94%
2023	785	0.000237074	30	755	-92%
2024	747	0.000224425	31	716	-92%

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