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The average weight and height of a 6 year old (girls and boys)

The average weight and height of a 6 year old (girls and boys)

How tall is the average 6 year old? And, linked with that, how much does a 6 year old weigh on average? This height and weight guide, which includes helpful tables and charts to make the information easily digestible, will answer these two questions and more.

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What is the average height for a 6 year old boy in feet?

A chart showing the average height for a 6 year old boy in feet

What is the average height for a 6 year old boy in feet? According to a US government health report, the average height of a 6 year old boy in feet is 3 feet 11 inches tall.

For most boys, this height is a 3-inch increase since the age of 5, and they can expect to grow another 3 inches between the ages of 6 and 7.

Height is well-known to be genetic, so some boys will naturally be a bit taller or shorter than their peers. You shouldn’t worry about these genetic differences unless your child is clearly far too overdeveloped or underdeveloped for their age.

What is the average height for a 6 year old girl in feet?

A chart displaying the average height for a 6 year old girl in feet

What is the average height for a 6 year old girl in feet? According to research data that measured the heights of 180 six year old girls, the average height of a 6 year old female in feet is 3 feet 11 inches tall.

As with the boys, this height—which is identical to that of 6-year-old males—represents a height increase of around 3 inches for most girls since the time they were 5.

Similarly, most girls will grow another 2 inches between the ages of 6 and 7 as they continue their physical development.

What is the average weight for a 6 year old boy?

A chart showing the average weight of a 6 year old boy

What is the average weight for a 6 year old boy? According to American anthropometric research, which weighed 169 six year old boys, the average weight of a 6 year old boy is 52.6 pounds.

In metric units, the average weight for a 6 year old boy is 23.81 kilograms, which is equal to 3.75 stones.

Between the ages of 6 and 7, a boy will gain an additional 8-9 lbs of body weight as he continues to get heavier and taller.

In terms of body mass index, which is used to measure adiposity or fatness, the average BMI for a 6 year old boy is 16.8, which is considered to be healthy by major health authorities like the CDC.

What is the average weight for a 6 year old female?

A chart showing the average weight of a 6 year old girl in pounds

What is the average weight for a 6 year old female? Based on body mass research, the average weight of a 6 year old girl is 52.3 pounds, which is almost the same weight as that for six year old boys.

In kilograms, this average works out at 23.72 kg, which is 3.73 stones.

Between the ages of 6 and 7, girls grow at a similar rate to boys in terms of both weight and height. Specifically, a normal 6 year old girl can expect to gain around 8 lbs of body weight between these ages.

As for BMI, the average BMI for a 6 year old girl is 16.7, which is considered to be normal and healthy.

6 year old boy weight chart

A chart displaying the average weight for a 6 year old boy

This helpful 6 year old boy weight chart shows the body mass distribution for six year old American males.

To give an example, if your son’s weight puts him in the 50th percentile, then, based on this data, he’d weigh more than roughly 50% of boys his age.

The same is true for other percentiles. If a boy’s weight puts him in the 90th percentile, then he’d be heavier than 90% of his peers and very likely overweight as well.

6 year old girl weight chart

A chart displaying the average weight for a 6 year old girl

As with the chart above, this useful 6 year old girl weight chart will help you to see just how light, heavy, or normal your six year old daughter’s weight really is.

Bear in mind that this chart just shows you the body weight percentiles for 6 year old females. If your daughter is really tall for her age, for example, then she might have a higher than average body weight without having an excessive BMI.

How tall are 6 year olds in general?

A chart displaying the average height of a 6 year old boy in feet
A chart showing the average height for a 6 year old female in feet

How tall are 6 year olds in general? As mentioned, the average 6 year old height for boys and girls is 3 feet 11 inches, which works out at 118.8 centimeters.

Although height is largely genetic, the diet quality of your child (as well as their sleep) can have some influence on how tall they grow. 

For example, an Indian study showed that 6-year-old boys and girls whose diet was supplemented with milk and micronutrients experienced significant growth in height within a year.

Is 4 feet tall for a 6 year old?

Is 4 feet tall for a 6 year old? Yes, based on the data, 4 feet is definitely tall for a six year old because it’s a full inch above the average height for 6 year olds living in the US.

Is 4’2 tall for a 6 year old?

Is 4’2 tall for a 6 year old? Yes, definitely. Even though a height of 4’2 might not seem tall to adults, such a measurement is a sizable 3 inches above the average 6 yr old height for boys and girls.

Indeed, in six-year-old boys, for example, a height of 4’2 would, statistically, mean that a hypothetical is taller than approximately 85% of his peers.

Conclusion: How much should a 6 year old weigh to be healthy?

A boy checking how much a 6 year old should weigh

Body mass index is one way to assess adiposity. However, it does have its faults (for example, if someone has a large amount of muscle mass as opposed to fat tissue, they might be classified as overweight even though they’re healthy).

Such an issue, however, is unlikely to arise with 6 year old children. As such, the average 6 year old weight of 52.6 lbs for boys and 52.3 lbs for girls are both healthy body weights for six year old children.

References

  1. Your Child at 6: Milestones. (2017, May 15). WebMD. Retrieved from https://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/child-at-6-milestones
  2. Thomas, T., Singh, M., Swaminathan, S., & Kurpad, A. V. (2020). Age-related differences in height gain with dairy protein and micronutrient supplements in Indian primary school children. Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition29(2), 355–362. https://doi.org/10.6133/apjcn.202007_29(2).0018