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Kyre vs Kyren

American parents have registered 4,085 Kyrens since 1880, against 687 Kyres. Kyren is still ahead, with 504 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyre against Kyren, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyre Kyren

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

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Kyren for 31 years and Kyre for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyre Kyren
Total US births 6874,085
Most in one year 31504
Babies in 2025 16504
Estimated living today 6804,000
Median age today 188
Peak year 19982025
Best rank 2,711th boys582nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th582nd
First recorded 19861990
Girls / boys 35 / 65289 / 3,996

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 Kyres alive today are over 18; half the Kyrens are over 8. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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