Kyler

#33 in North Dakota

Meaning of Kyler

Kyler drifts across centuries like a silvered arrow shot through mist: born, some say, from the Dutch surname Cuyler, “archer,” yet also echoing the Gaelic caol, “narrow strait,” and the prairie-bright fusion of Kyle and Tyler that modern America polished to a gleam; whatever strand is followed, the name carries the image of a young samurai poised on a moonlit bridge, slender yet unbending, his presence as crisp as mountain air. In sound—KY-ler—it breaks the silence the way wind (kaze) slips through bamboo, brisk, uncluttered, memorable. Parents have sensed that cool clarity for decades, letting the name climb the U.S. charts from a handful of births in the 1950s to a shimmering crest in the late 2010s, where it hovers still like a dragonfly over rice terraces, neither commonplace nor rare, but balanced. Kyler suggests focus without tension, adventure without noise: a boy stepping onto the tatami of the wider world, bow in hand, gaze fixed on the horizon’s calm, bright possibility.

Pronunciation

American English

  • Pronunced as KY-ler (/ˈkaɪlər/)

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Notable People Named Kyler

Kyler Murray is an Arizona Cardinals quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma, the 2019 NFL number one pick, and the first athlete drafted in the first round of both the NFL and MLB.
Kyler Mackenzie Pettis is an American actor who played Theo Carver on Days of Our Lives from 2015 to 2018 and won a Daytime Emmy in 2019.
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