Khyree
Masculine
Khyree is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,942 boys against 34 girls since 1880.
Khyree joins a Khy- front to the -ree ending, and the sound sits near the Greek kyrie — Lord — without a documented descent.
How old is the name Khyree?
Khyree first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Khyree is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,900 people named Khyree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khyree most popular?
Khyree peaked in 2022, reaching #1213 nationally. Today it ranks #1976, 763 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Khyree
Our story of Khyree is a story of a sound with a grand possible ancestor. Kyrie eleison — Lord, have mercy — is among the oldest fixed phrases in Christian liturgy, and it is Greek left standing inside a Latin mass. Khyree sounds like it. Whether any family reached for that or simply for the -ree ending that Tyree and Khari had made familiar is not recorded, and the name appears in the American registers in the 1990s.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
No settled etymology. It may reflect the Greek kyrie, 'Lord', the vocative used in the Kyrie eleison. It may be a coinage on the Kh- front and -ree ending, alongside Khari and Tyree. Neither is documented for this spelling.
Pronouncing Khyree
ky-REE
Two syllables, stress on the second. Khyree and Kyree are said identically.
Nicknames for Khyree
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1989
- Most boys named
- 2022163 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1213reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −23.8%77 in 2025, from 101
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Khyree in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kyree in English — spelling variant
- Kyrie in Greek — related form
- Khari in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Khyrees among us
people named Khyree are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was named Khyree
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khyree
- #1976
- Khyree on the 2025 chart
- #530
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khyree went to 77 boys in 2025, but Kyree, Kyre and Khiree and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 453, which makes it the 530th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,446 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 3,771 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,183 for Khyree itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Markanthony test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khyree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Markanthony climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Markanthony's path sketches the road Khyree is walking now.
Khyree sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Khyree is headed
Khyree should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Khyree beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khyree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Kyrie behind the sound is one of the oldest phrases in Christian liturgy.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- It is genuinely rare and immediately distinctive.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling.
- Kyrie and Kyree are both close and are said differently.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khyrees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Khyree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khyree?
- Khyree is one of 8 recorded spellings. Kyree is the more common one — 326 births in 2025 against 77 for Khyree.
- How popular is the name Khyree in 2025?
- Khyree ranks #1976 among US boy names in 2025, with 77 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khyree?
- About 1 in every 22,183 US boys born in 2025 was named Khyree — 77 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khyree with classmates?
- Khyree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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