Kyng
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KING
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #1,677 for boys
Kyng is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “king, monarch”. In 2025 it ranked 1,677th for boys in the US (98 babies).
What does Kyng mean?
English: stylised spelling of King, from Old English cyning
“king, monarch”
A stylised spelling of the word king, which comes from Old English cyning.
Is Kyng a girl's or a boy's name?
Kyng is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 98 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kyng in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,677among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 98about 1 in 17,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 98 boys in the US were named Kyng, making it the 1,677th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 882nd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 256 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Kyng than any year since 2014.
Half of all the boys named Kyng in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 884 boys in the US were given Kyng or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #380, up from #1,677 for this spelling alone.
- King 786
- Kyng 98
Kyng in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,677 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,551 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,300 |
| 2022 | 213 | #1,037 |
| 2021 | 256 | #897 |
| 2020 | 256 | #882 |
| 2019 | 251 | #875 |
| 2018 | 250 | #872 |
| 2017 | 216 | #961 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,065 |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,588 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,766 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,043 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,677 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,790 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,676 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,618 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
Names like Kyng
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru Kairo Yug Kota Kenzo Kaizen Loki Koen Ryu Chozen Rumi Mikko
Other spellings of Kyng
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kyng: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kyng, updated 20 October 2026.