No, I grew up in the US though and didn’t use a kettle til I was in my 20s. That said, Americans don’t really use boiled water for much. Herbal tea, yes, so would heat that in the microwave (okay, which is weird). But we use coffee machines to make coffee and we don’t drink tea as all tea in the US is shit. There isn’t a culture of making endless hot beverages throughout the day like in the UK. Frankly, it’s hot a good chunk of the year and hot beverages are really only for the morning and a lot of people would just buy a coffee out unless making a pot of filter coffee at home. We would make big vats of sweetened or unsweetened iced tea, but would use a big pot for that, not a kettle.
I was probably 25 when I moved in with my very cultured boyfriend at the time who owned a kettle and used a cafetière (also not typical) to make coffee and I was like WHAT?!? I didn’t even know that was a thing. After that, always had a kettle (usually stovetop one because electric hard to find) and cafetière, but I was an oddity. Obviously, living in the UK, we now drink a lot of tea, so it’s very necessary to have a kettle.