Kiel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Kiel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kiel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Kiel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Kiel ranks at #6,609. That means there are 6,608 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kiel.
Is the name Kiel a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1983, when it ranked #472 with 285 newborn boys receiving this special first name. In times of emerging digitalization, it thus experienced its last peak. Since Kiel is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their son this unusual name. So, if your name is Kiel, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kiel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Kiel, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 8 parents welcomed a new Kiel to earth that year. That makes Kiel ranking on position 7,630 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Kiel who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
You may not know anyone named Kiel, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Kiel. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Kiel living in one state or another. If your name is Kiel and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Washington, which has the most people named Kiel relative to the population, you still have to ask 58,125 men and boys their names before you hear Kiel as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Kiel is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kiel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kiel, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kiel sounds like this:
