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The name Kyle is of Scottish origin, and means narrows or strait. The table below indicates the number of times the name Kyle has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Kyle**
Use of the Name Kyle for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
429,045	423,928	370,739	126,120	48,843	16,319	7,705

The table below indicates the number of times the name Kyle has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Kyle first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Kyle**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	950	5
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888	730	9
1889
1890
1891	811	7
1892
1893	875	7
1894	701	10
1895	938	7
1896
1897
1898
1899	909	7
1900
1901
1902	983	7
1903	964	7
1904	786	10
1905	879	9
1906	827	10
1907
1908	990	9
1909	928	11
1910	802	15
1911
1912	728	35
1913
1914	829	42
1915	745	65
1916	787	62
1917	704	75
1918	806	66
1919	924	53
1920	708	84
1921	845	67
1922	736	81
1923	816	68
1924	689	90
1925	713	82
1926	688	85
1927	626	101
1928	742	75
1929	695	79
1930	658	89
1931	671	80
1932	700	78
1933	700	74
1934	639	88
1935	539	115
1936	595	95
1937	564	105
1938	689	77
1939	574	101
1940	607	96
1941	552	117
1942	587	113
1943	577	121
1944	627	96
1945	666	81
1946	622	106
1947	551	149
1948	588	129
1949	559	145
1950	431	238	880	102
1951	369	342	593	210
1952	352	382	714	156
1953	358	363	738	153
1954	362	397	736	158
1955	360	405	840	134
1956	342	473	701	186
1957	241	1,024	716	194
1958	247	1,012	790	162
1959	237	1,143	668	225
1960	219	1,270	680	223
1961	232	1,157	700	225
1962	180	1,701	901	138
1963	180	1,629	936	128
1964	192	1,474
1965	210	1,170
1966	145	1,957
1967	138	2,145
1968	148	1,937
1969	143	2,130
1970	120	2,752
1971	116	2,817
1972	114	2,465
1973	110	2,362
1974	97	2,595
1975	88	2,827
1976	80	3,302
1977	79	3,501
1978	64	4,502	900	160
1979	56	5,439	903	165
1980	57	5,762	885	173
1981	52	6,558	945	156
1982	47	8,195	831	189
1983	34	12,366	703	242
1984	34	12,524	717	230
1985	27	16,497	620	304
1986	23	19,294	698	259
1987	22	19,845	606	320
1988	21	19,864	664	289
1989	20	20,878	766	254
1990	18	22,689	822	238
1991	21	21,609
1992	22	20,707
1993	23	19,442
1994	24	18,389
1995	24	16,756
1996	25	15,590
1997	24	15,910
1998	24	15,267
1999	28	13,754
2000	37	11,951
2001	40	10,539
2002	40	10,034
2003	53	8,614
2004	55	7,705
Totals:		429,045		5,373

During the last 125 years, parents have used Kyle as a boy's name about 98% of the time and less frequently (about 1% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Kyle appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 107 times during the last 125 years.

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