Name meaning & stats
King
King. 34,552 US babies since 1940, peak 2017.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2017
34,552 US babies were named King between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named King (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2017)