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Kyre vs Kyrie

American parents have registered 22,910 Kyries since 1880, against 687 Kyres. Kyrie is still ahead, with 1,489 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyre Kyrie

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

Kyrie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Kyre had 30 and Kyrie had 64.

Side by side

  Kyre Kyrie
Total US births 68722,910
Most in one year 311,956
Babies in 2025 161,489
Estimated living today 68023,000
Median age today 186
Peak year 19982017
Best rank 2,711th boys215th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th244th
First recorded 19861969
Girls / boys 35 / 6524,298 / 18,612

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 Kyries are over 6. That is 12 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 Kyrie.