Kail
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kail has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Kail, 2024
1 in 669,000
Kail over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kail over time
In 2024, Kail went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kail?
Kail had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kail sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kails were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kail was born before 2007 — so the typical Kail is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 606
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (247).
Is Kail rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2008 (37)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kail
Kail is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 44.0% against Kail's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kail is used
Across 1910–2025, Kail was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kail has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kail around the world
Where Kail ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–2013#4,685in 2013
- France2006–2025#1,124in 2025
- Canada2001–2014#2,672in 2014
- South Australia1992–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kail by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kail
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kail
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.