Kayle
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #7,048
Given to girls 86.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 190 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,028since 1955
Kayle over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 68 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 106 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #1,783 | 115 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #1,685 | 132 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #1,645 | 135 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #1,552 | 140 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #1,466 | 144 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #1,369 | 153 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,365 | 148 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #1,386 | 139 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #1,322 | 145 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,088 | 190 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #1,108 | 179 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #1,123 | 171 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #1,225 | 146 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #1,358 | 124 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #1,306 | 127 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #1,337 | 126 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #1,409 | 115 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #1,290 | 132 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #1,420 | 113 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #1,300 | 125 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #1,454 | 101 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #1,704 | 75 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #1,733 | 69 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #2,079 | 51 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kayle! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kayle
- 5,592 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #7,885)
- 2,398 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #7,885)
- 4,407 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2000 at #1,088 (190 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,558 girls born in 2000 were named Kayle (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.2% of all girls named Kayle (1,460) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1980, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,647 |
| 1960s | 13 | #5,309 (1961) | #5,778 |
| 1970s | 37 | #5,516 (1975) | #7,494 |
| 1980s | 418 | #1,454 (1989) | #3,851 |
| 1990s | 1,358 | #1,108 (1999) | #1,288 |
| 2000s | 1,460 | #1,088 (2000) | #1,454 |
| 2010s | 633 | #1,783 (2010) | #3,172 |
| 2020s | 98 | #5,487 (2020) | #7,606 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kayle in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 325,880 of them was named Kayle, which outranked 22.6% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,740Zelpha7
- #4,740Zeta7
- #4,740Zully7
- #5,208Kayle6
- #5,208Abra6
- #5,208Adah6
- #5,208Adonica6
- #5,828Abagail5
- #5,828Abelina5
- #5,828Adalene5
Tied with 619 names at #5,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.