Kohl
#5,505 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kohl has been given to 1,759 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,505 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 98 recorded.
Babies named Kohl, 2025
1 in 195,000
Kohl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kohl?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,505
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kohl 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kohl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kohls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kohl was born before 2002 — so the typical Kohl is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,759
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (721).
Is Kohl 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
- +2,559
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +347
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,172
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.3%
- Peak was 2001 (98)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kohl
Kohl is not the most common spelling — John is, with 89.9% against Kohl's 0.03%.
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 Kohl is used
Across 1910–2025, Kohl was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 256,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Washington1 in 50,000
- 2Arizona1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Nevada1 in 100,000
- 5Arkansas1 in —
- 6California1 in —
- 7Florida1 in —
- 8Georgia1 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. Kohl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kohl around the world
Where Kohl 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 & Wales2008–2014#4,632in 2014
- Canada1991–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia2001–2013#754in 2013
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.
Kohl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kohl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kohl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.