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Baby name
King
Boy
Origin of the name
King comes from the English word king.
Rising name
37,850births since 1880
2010sgeneration
No. 147rank at its peak, in 2017
Where babies named King are born
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The darker the blue, the more common King is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, King is most common in Nevada (4 times), Florida (2.7) and Georgia (2.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Kyng 2,367
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