Kline Popularity by Year

Follow Kline across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Kline birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
2023	Boys	5	#12,239	Up 91 places
2022	Boys	5	#12,330	Down 1,527 places
2019	Boys	6	#10,803	Down 3,708 places
2017	Boys	11	#7,095	Up 2,473 places
2017	Girls	6	#14,124	—
2015	Boys	7	#9,568	Up 2,568 places
2013	Boys	5	#12,136	Down 1,328 places
2011	Boys	6	#10,808	Down 4,006 places
2009	Boys	12	#6,802	Up 1,497 places
2005	Boys	8	#8,299	Up 966 places
1997	Boys	5	#9,265	Down 1,148 places
1990	Boys	5	#8,117	Down 1,802 places
1984	Boys	5	#6,315	Down 1,911 places
1969	Boys	5	#4,404	Down 1,327 places
1960	Boys	8	#3,077	Up 809 places
1955	Boys	5	#3,886	Down 1,206 places
1937	Boys	8	#2,680	Up 174 places
1936	Boys	7	#2,854	Up 791 places
1935	Boys	5	#3,645	Down 377 places
1933	Boys	6	#3,268	Up 508 places
1932	Boys	5	#3,776	Down 184 places
1930	Boys	6	#3,592	Down 33 places
1929	Boys	6	#3,559	Down 202 places
1928	Boys	7	#3,357	Up 351 places
1926	Boys	6	#3,708	Up 489 places
1925	Boys	5	#4,197	Up 150 places
1924	Boys	5	#4,347	Down 1,546 places
1922	Boys	10	#2,801	Up 1,068 places
1921	Boys	6	#3,869	Down 902 places
1920	Boys	9	#2,967	Down 702 places
1919	Boys	13	#2,265	Up 434 places
1918	Boys	10	#2,699	Up 1,282 places
1917	Boys	5	#3,981	Down 1,251 places
1916	Boys	9	#2,730	Down 1,150 places
1913	Boys	12	#1,580	—