Given name & surname

Kind

Kind is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Kind isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Kind through the years

Babies since 1880
62
0 boys · 62 girls
Most popular year
2021
17 babies
2025
9
#10,523 for girls
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+100%
Rising fast
0510152025Highest share 20215.6
Kind in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2019–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,523 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,769 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Kind’s family of names

In German usage, Kind as a surname has a related form in Kindle.

Walk Kind’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Kind, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Kimori

18Very rareRising fast

>99% girls

Modern

Kymbrie

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Modern

Kylina

0Not recently recordedCooling

>99% girls

Modern

Kayal

“fish”

12Very rareCooling

>99% girls

Modern

Kainat

23RareRising fast

>99% girls

Irish · Modern

Caoimhe

“one who is charming and beautiful”

24RareRising

>99% girls

Modern

Kinnidy

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Kind’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Kind