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Kyria vs Kyron

American parents have registered 4,561 Kyrons since 1880, against 797 Kyrias. Kyron is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyria against Kyron, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyria 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

Kyron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1959 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Kyria had 19 and Kyron had 21.

Side by side

  Kyria Kyron
Total US births 7974,561
Most in one year 37261
Babies in 2025 683
Estimated living today 7904,500
Median age today 2117
Peak year 20082010
Best rank 4,179th girls820th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,886th
First recorded 19721959
Girls / boys 797 / 00 / 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 Kyrias alive today are over 21; half the Kyrons are over 17. That is 4 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 Kyria Kyron
England and Wales 361,878
France 215200

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: Kyria and Kyron.