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Kyri vs Kyrie

American parents have registered 22,910 Kyries since 1880, against 943 Kyris. Kyrie is still ahead, with 1,489 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyri 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

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Kyrie for 51 years and Kyri for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kyri Kyrie
Total US births 94322,910
Most in one year 501,956
Babies in 2025 171,489
Estimated living today 93023,000
Median age today 136
Peak year 20102017
Best rank 4,180th girls215th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th244th
First recorded 19701969
Girls / boys 519 / 4244,298 / 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 Kyris alive today are over 13; half the Kyries are over 6. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kyri Kyrie
England and Wales 28876

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: Kyri and Kyrie.