Kye

Where Kye comes from

Possibly a modern phonetic rendering of Kai, or a short form of Kyle and Kyler.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kye
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #2,798 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Kye Rowles born
    Australian association football player
  3. 1999
    Kye Whyte born
    British male BMX rider
  4. 2016
    Peak, #693
    356 babies named Kye — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,196.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Kye Rowles · Australian association football player, born 1998
  • Kye Whyte · British male BMX rider, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.