King
King is ranked 342nd among boys in 2024 (1,001 births). Its best rank was 147th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #342down 76 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0010.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20172,694 births
- Best rank
- #147in 2017
- Since 1880
- 37,040people given the name
The story in the numbers
37,040 boys have been named King in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 2,694 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 175 → 342).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named King | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 229 | |
| 1890s | 233 | |
| 1900s | 277 | |
| 1910s | 795 | |
| 1920s | 998 | |
| 1930s | 801 | |
| 1940s | 818 | |
| 1950s | 708 | |
| 1960s | 453 | |
| 1970s | 316 | |
| 1980s | 335 | |
| 1990s | 439 | |
| 2000s | 1,950 | |
| 2010s | 20,432 | |
| 2020s | 8,256 |
In 2017, its biggest year
King was the 147th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with King
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bensonpeak 2016
- Lincolnpeak 2017
- Kingsleypeak 2016
- Nixonpeak 2017
- Dukepeak 2018
- Tiberiuspeak 2015
- Jaxtonpeak 2018
- Easonpeak 2016
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.