Kyle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Either ‘person from Kyle’ in Ayrshire, from its 5th-century British ruler Coel Hen, or from various Scottish places named Kyle meaning ‘strait’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kyle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 763(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #505 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 624 (measured from records)
- 1 in 763 (inferred from the name graph)
≈450,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either ‘person from Kyle’ in Ayrshire, from its 5th-century British ruler Coel Hen, or from various Scottish places named Kyle meaning ‘strait’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kyle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈450,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kyle | 58 |
| US United States | #200 | 436,151 | 1 in 763 | 429K | Kyle | 624 |
| GB United Kingdom | #299 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 14 | Kyle | 303 |
| CA Canada | #231 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 15 | Kyle | 327 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #688 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Kyle | 14 |
| AU Australia | #289 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 115 | Kyle | 240 |
| NZ New Zealand | #251 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 21 | Kyle | 133 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kyle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Scottish Gaelic caol, meaning 'narrow, strait'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Scottish Gaelic; from the narrow strait; also a Scottish region
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
habitational name from any of the numerous Scottish places named Kyle from Gaelic caol ‘narrow’, also caolas ‘narrows’, ‘strait’. Compare Kyles.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
regional name from a district in Ayrshire called Kyle, named for the British chieftains who ruled it in the 5th century, the Coel Hen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kyle MacLachlanb. 1959USAmerican actor
- Kyle Gassb. 1960USAmerican singer and musician (born 1960)
- Kyle Chandlerb. 1965USAmerican actor (born 1965)
- Kyle Eastwoodb. 1968USAmerican jazz bassist and composer
- Kyle Richardsb. 1969USAmerican actress and television personality
- Kyle Bornheimerb. 1975USAmerican actor
- Kyle Schmidb. 1984CACanadian actor
- Kyle Lowryb. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- Ryan Cooglerb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker (born 1986)
- Kyle Walkerb. 1990GBEnglish association football player (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 91 sources across 48 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kyle a male or female name?
- Kyle is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kyle mean, and where does it come from?
- Either ‘person from Kyle’ in Ayrshire, from its 5th-century British ruler Coel Hen, or from various Scottish places named Kyle meaning ‘strait’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Kyle?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɪl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kyle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 452 thousand people named Kyle in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyle.
- Where is Kyle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kyle is densest in the United States — about 1 in 763 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kyle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 436,151 people named Kyle in 2020, about 1 in 763 residents.
- How common is Kyle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Kyle is the 200th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kyleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kyle” — the 200th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.