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Kyndall vs Kynley

American parents have registered 6,639 Kyndalls since 1880, against 549 Kynleys. Kyndall is still ahead, with 99 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyndall against Kynley, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyndall Kynley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kyndall has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Kyndall had 247 and Kynley had 39.

Side by side

  Kyndall Kynley
Total US births 6,639549
Most in one year 35253
Babies in 2025 997
Estimated living today 6,600550
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20112012
Best rank 794th girls3,134th girls
Rank in 2025 1,942nd11,932nd
First recorded 19642001
Girls / boys 6,428 / 211549 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kyndalls alive today are over 14; half the Kynleys are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kyndall and Kynley.