Kyng
#1,677 for boys in 2025, 98 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 250 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,367since 2006
Kyng over time
Rank among boys' names. Kyng has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,677 | 98 |
| 2024 | #1,551 | 113 |
| 2023 | #1,300 | 147 |
| 2022 | #1,037 | 213 |
| 2021 | #897 | 256 |
| 2020 | #882 | 256 |
| 2019 | #875 | 251 |
| 2018 | #872 | 250 |
| 2017 | #961 | 216 |
| 2016 | #1,065 | 185 |
| 2015 | #1,588 | 101 |
| 2014 | #1,766 | 85 |
| 2013 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #2,678 | 45 |
| 2011 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kyng! It came in at #8,732, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2008, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Kyng is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#413 · 1 in 2,041
- Mississippi#465 · 1 in 1,998
- Connecticut#495 · 1 in 2,795
- South Carolina#496 · 1 in 2,532
- Florida#506 · 1 in 2,992
Best ever in a state: #206 in District of Columbia, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #413 | 25 | 1 in 2,041 |
| Mississippi | #465 | 6 | 1 in 1,998 |
| Connecticut | #495 | 5 | 1 in 2,795 |
| South Carolina | #496 | 8 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Florida | #506 | 31 | 1 in 2,992 |
| Maryland | #529 | 9 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Georgia | #553 | 17 | 1 in 2,963 |
| Louisiana | #581 | 8 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Missouri | #626 | 8 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Pennsylvania | #728 | 11 | 1 in 5,041 |
| Tennessee | #738 | 8 | 1 in 4,480 |
| Arizona | #749 | 7 | 1 in 4,660 |
| New York | #755 | 18 | 1 in 4,952 |
| Alabama | #761 | 5 | 1 in 4,403 |
| Texas | #836 | 29 | 1 in 5,901 |
| Illinois | #877 | 9 | 1 in 5,990 |
| New Jersey | #1,036 | 5 | 1 in 8,111 |
| Ohio | #1,105 | 6 | 1 in 9,036 |
| Michigan | #1,131 | 5 | 1 in 8,593 |
| California | #2,214 | 6 | 1 in 31,563 |
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See more about Kyng
- 126 spots since 2024 (#1,551 → #1,677)
- 795 spots since 2020 (#882 → #1,677)
- 89 spots since 2015 (#1,588 → #1,677)
- Biggest jump: 104 spots in 2017 (#1,065 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2022 (#897 → #1,037)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2018 at #872 (250 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2017–2021
- Highest: 1 in 6,742 boys born in 2020 were named Kyng (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,429 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #872 in 2018, was only 1 in 7,265 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 52.6% of all boys named Kyng (1,246) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 38 | #6,622 (2007) | #8,298 |
| 2010s | 1,246 | #872 (2018) | #2,032 |
| 2020s | 1,083 | #882 (2020) | #1,224 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kyng in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 6,834 of them was named Kyng, which outranked 93.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).