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Kaylee vs Kayvion

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 539 Kayvions. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaylee Kayvion

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 2025, when Kaylee had 1,205 and Kayvion had 43.

Side by side

  Kaylee Kayvion
Total US births 140,601539
Most in one year 7,22543
Babies in 2025 1,20543
Estimated living today 139,000540
Median age today 188
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 26th girls2,884th boys
Rank in 2025 255th2,884th
First recorded 19432001
Girls / boys 140,425 / 1760 / 539

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 Kayvions are over 8. That is 10 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 Kayvion.