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Kayle

About 4,654 American babies have been named Kayle since 1948, most of them around 2000. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 4,600 Kayles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kayle boys named Kayle

Girls and boys called Kayle

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 4,028 girls and 626 boys in all, and in 2019 the split was 26 to 0.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 37 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,654
Estimated living today
4,600
Median age today
25
Peak year
2000
Best rank
1,088th
Rank in 2025
7,885th
First recorded
1948
Girls / boys
4,028 / 626

How old the living Kayles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,654 babies given the name since 1948, about 4,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 20 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Kayles

People named Kayle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Kayle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kayle is most concentrated in Florida (2.3×), Texas (2.2×), Ohio (2.0×), California (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular girls’ names the year Kayle peaked:

All the names of 2000

Kayle elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Kayle 110 2,376th
England and Wales boys Kayle 33 2,741st
England and Wales girls Kayle 7 4,157th
France girls Kayle 5 5,733rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Kayle against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.