Kyle is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Kyle isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Kyle ranks 203. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 11 were named Kyle. In total, there are currently 485,950 people – children, adults and seniors – named Kyle living in the United States, which is approximately 0.15 % of the entire population.
The name Kyle is derived from the Scottish place name ‘Kyle’, which was used to describe a narrow body of water, typically a strait or channel. The place name Kyle was used in Scotland to describe several locations. In recent years, the name Kyle has become popular in many countries, including the United States.
What is a strait? A strait is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water, such as two seas or two oceans. Straits are typically shallower and narrower than channels and are used for navigation or transportation purposes.
#18 - this is the highest position Kyle has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Kyle reached this top spot at the end of the past century in 1990 when 22,944newborn boys were named Kyle. But as our statistics show, Kyle hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1901, it was given to newborns not at all or at least less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics only if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Kyle has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well in our modern times. From zero to hero – even if its peak is in the past, Kyle has become a fashionable name after all.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kyle was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 828 newborn boys were given the name Kyle, making this first name #371. Towards the end of the last century, the name had a real flight of fancy and still captivates many people today − just like the music of the 80s. So, the chances to meet a young Kyle are still quite high.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Kyle is one of them. However, Kyle is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Alaska seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,558 men called Kyle who live here are 0,620% of all male residents and push their name up to #40 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Alaska. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 485,950 people with the name Kyle. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Kyle on position 63 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Kyle 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 Kyle 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 Kyle, 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. Kyle sounds like this:
