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Kyra vs Kyron

American parents have registered 38,308 Kyras since 1880, against 4,561 Kyrons. Kyra is still ahead, with 329 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyra against Kyron, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyra Kyron

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

Kyra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Kyra had 817 and Kyron had 234.

Side by side

  Kyra Kyron
Total US births 38,3084,561
Most in one year 1,918261
Babies in 2025 32983
Estimated living today 38,0004,500
Median age today 2217
Peak year 20052010
Best rank 179th girls820th boys
Rank in 2025 827th1,886th
First recorded 19191959
Girls / boys 38,285 / 230 / 4,561

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 Kyras alive today are over 22; half the Kyrons are over 17. That is 5 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kyra Kyron
England and Wales 4,4321,878
France 780200
Ireland 414128
Scotland 28429
Northern Ireland 14311

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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