Kye
Kye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 171 births. Its best rank was 693rd, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1710.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016356 births
- Best rank
- #693in 2016
- Since 1956
- 5,761people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,421 boys have been named Kye in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 356 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 340 girls have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Kye was the 693rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Kye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jadpeak 2020
- Langstonpeak 2016
- Leonardopeak 2019
- Nehemiaspeak 2024
- Kanepeak 2018
- Canaanpeak 2016
- Croixpeak 2019
- Ibrahimpeak 2024
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.