Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word king, which ultimately derives from Old English cyning. It was also used as a surname from the same source, with Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), the American civil rights leader, being a well-known bearer.
20062006: 219 births, rank #893
2007: 321 births, rank #720
2008: 329 births, rank #708
2009: 591 births, rank #461
2010: 706 births, rank #398
20112011: 730 births, rank #389
2012: 1,434 births, rank #256
2013: 2,110 births, rank #193
2014: 2,438 births, rank #175
2015: 2,568 births, rank #163
20162016: 2,672 births, rank #153
2017: 2,696 births, rank #147
2018: 2,613 births, rank #149
2019: 2,473 births, rank #157
2020: 2,268 births, rank #171
20212021: 2,055 births, rank #185
2022: 1,656 births, rank #222
2023: 1,286 births, rank #265
2024: 1,006 births, rank #342
20252025: 786 births, rank #405
King moved from #342 to #405 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2017, with 2,696 births.