Kyren

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 182 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
182
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#584
up from #812
UK popularity
#1197
24 babies

How Kyren has moved

US popularity rank, 2023–2025. Lower is more popular.
#507#762#1017202320242025#584

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YearUS rank
2023#940
2024#812
2025#584

Kyren by the numbers

In 2025, 24 babies in England and Wales were named Kyren. In the US, 182 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 181 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kyren

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 Kyren. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kylennarrow strait or channel; respelling of Kyle226 in the US (2017)
  • Kyranlittle dark one; a form of Kieran30 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kyronlordly and masterly; a variant of Cyrus25 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kyree506 in the US (2017)
  • Kyrin158 in the US (2017)
  • Kyden101 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kyren

Names that are said the same way as Kyren, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kiranray of light, beam of sunlight123 in the US (2017)
  • Kiringiraffe; or mythical hooved chimerical creature19 in the US (2017)
  • Khironhand; form of chiron the centaur6 in the US (2017)
  • Khyren30 in the US (2017)
  • Khyrin12 in the US (2017)
  • Kiren12 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kyren

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