Name meaning & stats
Kye
Kye means “narrow strait” (Germanic origin). 5,904 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
“narrow strait”
GermanicShort form of Kyle
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
5,904 US babies were named Kye between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Kye (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: 59% of the family
- Kye 59%
- Ky 16%
- Kei 8%
- Ki 5%
- Khi 4%
- Kyi 2%
- Key 2%
- Khye 1%
- Khy 1%
- Kie 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)