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Kaylee vs Kayslin

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 27 Kayslins. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaylee against Kayslin, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaylee Kayslin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kaylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1943 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Kaylee had 2,558 and Kayslin had 20.

Side by side

  Kaylee Kayslin
Total US births 140,60127
Most in one year 7,22520
Babies in 2025 1,205under 5
Estimated living today 139,00030
Median age today 186
Peak year 20092019
Best rank 26th girls5,986th girls
Rank in 2025 255thunranked
First recorded 19432019
Girls / boys 140,425 / 17627 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kaylees alive today are over 18; half the Kayslins are over 6. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kaylee and Kayslin.