Kiefer
#11,395 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kiefer has been given to 1,950 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #11,395 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 204 recorded.
Babies named Kiefer, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kiefer 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kiefer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,395
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kiefer sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiefer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kiefers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiefer was born before 1997 — so the typical Kiefer is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,950
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (969).
Is Kiefer 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
- +1,955
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,576
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,363
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 2.9%
- Peak was 1991 (204)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Kiefer
Kiefer is the most-used spelling, taking 31.4% of the 6,207 babies given a near-identical spelling.
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 Kiefer is used
Across 1910–2025, Kiefer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 217,496 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Kansas1 in 100,000
- 4Oregon1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Utah1 in 100,000
- 7Washington1 in 100,000
- 8Colorado1 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. Kiefer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kiefer around the world
Where Kiefer 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 & Wales1996–2021#4,789in 2021
- Scotland1992–2009#626in 2009
- Ireland1993–2022#657in 2022
- France1992–1996#2,958in 1996
- Canada1991–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1990–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kiefer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kiefer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kiefer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.