Kyrie
Feminine · “lord”
Kyrie is given to both — 4,298 girls and 18,612 boys since 1880. See Kyrie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kyrie is the Greek for lord, and the Kyrie eleison is one of the few Greek fragments left in the Latin Mass.
How old is the name Kyrie?
Kyrie first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Kyrie alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 4,300 people named Kyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kyrie most popular?
Kyrie peaked in 1986, reaching #958 nationally. Today it ranks #2438, 1,480 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kyrios to Kyrie
The story of Kyrie
When the Roman church switched from Greek to Latin, the Kyrie eleison stayed in Greek and has been sung that way ever since — a fossil of the older rite embedded in the newer one. Composers from Palestrina to Bach set it. Kyrie appears in American records for both sexes in current use.
Meaning
lord
From the Greek kyrios, 'lord', in the vocative kyrie. The Kyrie eleison, 'Lord have mercy', survived untranslated when the Roman liturgy moved into Latin in the fourth century. The Greek is documented and the liturgical history well attested.
How the name formed
- kyrios
- kyrie
- Kyrie
Related forms: Κύριε · Kyrieh
Pronouncing Kyrie
KEER-ee-ay
Three syllables in the liturgy; American use often says KY-ree with two.
Nicknames for Kyrie
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 2016198 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #958reached in 1986
- Change vs 2024
- −11.0%73 in 2025, from 82
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.
Kyrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κύριε in Greek — related form
- Kyrieh in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Kyries among us
people named Kyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was named Kyrie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Felice test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kyrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Felice climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Felice's path sketches the road Kyrie is walking now.
Kyrie 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 Kyrie is headed
Kyrie is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Kyrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kyrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls 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.
- Composers from Palestrina to Bach set the words.
- The liturgical and American pronunciations differ entirely.
- It is used for both sexes and reads as masculine to many Americans.
- It is a liturgical word rather than a traditional name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kyries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,300 people named Kyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kyrie in 2025?
- Kyrie ranks #2438 among US girl names in 2025, with 73 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kyrie?
- About 1 in every 22,017 US girls born in 2025 was named Kyrie — 73 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kyrie with classmates?
- Kyrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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