Kail
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Kail by the numbers
Kail was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 37 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Kail
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kail. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kaisea672 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Kail
Names that are said the same way as Kail, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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