Khyrie
Masculine · “lord”
Khyrie is given to both — 787 boys and 78 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Khyrie respells Kyrie, the Greek for lord — the Kyrie eleison is one of the few Greek fragments left in the Latin Mass.
How old is the name Khyrie?
Khyrie first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Khyrie is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Khyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khyrie most popular?
Khyrie peaked in 2018, reaching #1959 nationally. Today it ranks #2108, 149 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kyrios to Khyrie
The story of Khyrie
When the Roman church switched from Greek to Latin in the fourth century, the Kyrie eleison stayed in Greek and has been sung that way ever since — a fossil of the older liturgy. Kyrie Irving made the name widely familiar in America. Khyrie appears in the registers as a respelling in current use.
Meaning
lord
From the Greek kyrios, 'lord' or 'master', in the vocative kyrie. The Kyrie eleison, 'Lord have mercy', survived untranslated when the rest of the Roman liturgy went into Latin. The Kh- respelling is modern American. The Greek is documented.
How the name formed
- kyrios
- kyrie
- Khyrie
Related forms: Κύριε · Kyrie · Kyree
Pronouncing Khyrie
KY-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. The liturgical Kyrie is KEE-ree-ay with three.
Nicknames for Khyrie
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
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 201875 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1959reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- +1.5%69 in 2025, from 68
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.
Khyrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κύριε in Greek — related form
- Kyrie in English — spelling variant
- Kyree in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Khyries among us
people named Khyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 24,755 born in 2025 was named Khyrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khyrie
- #2108
- Khyrie on the 2025 chart
- #239
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khyrie went to 69 boys in 2025, but Kyrie and Kyriee are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 1,496, which makes it the 239th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,869 places above the chart.
- Kyrie1,416
- Khyrie69
- Kyriee11
About 1 boy in 1,142 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,755 for Khyrie 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 Jafet test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khyrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jafet climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jafet's path sketches the road Khyrie is walking now.
Khyrie 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 Khyrie is headed
Khyrie 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.
Khyrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khyrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the Kyrie is a Greek fossil inside the Latin Mass is a first-rate fact.
- Ky is available as a short form with real currency.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in American use.
- The liturgical pronunciation is entirely different.
- Kyrie is the standard spelling.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
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Masculine · #2108 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Khyries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Khyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khyrie?
- Khyrie is one of 3 recorded spellings. Kyrie is the more common one — 1,416 births in 2025 against 69 for Khyrie.
- How popular is the name Khyrie in 2025?
- Khyrie ranks #2108 among US boy names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khyrie?
- About 1 in every 24,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Khyrie — 69 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khyrie with classmates?
- Khyrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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