Kin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kin has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 1989, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Kin, 2023
1 in 663,000
Kin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kin?
Kin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kin was born before 1982 — so the typical Kin is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 25.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (68).
Is Kin 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (10)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.5% average annual change
Where Kin is used
Across 1910–2025, Kin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Kin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kin around the world
Where Kin 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 & Wales1996–2009#4,527in 2009
- Canada1993–1993#1,824in 1993
- South Australia1990–1990#484in 1990
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.