King
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#405
down −63 places
2025 births
786
down −220 births
All-time births
37,850
2% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 2,696 births
- Best rank
- #147
- in 2017
- First recorded
- 1880
- #331 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2004
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 20172,696#147Peak
- 20162,672#153
- 20182,613#149
- 20152,568#163
- 20192,473#157
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #147 in 2017 · peak births 2,696 in 2017
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
37,850 boys · 40 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where King has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.