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Kaylee vs Kayvon

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 1,418 Kayvons. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaylee Kayvon

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 1973, when Kaylee had 11 and Kayvon had 5.

Side by side

  Kaylee Kayvon
Total US births 140,6011,418
Most in one year 7,22555
Babies in 2025 1,20547
Estimated living today 139,0001,400
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 26th girls2,299th boys
Rank in 2025 255th2,718th
First recorded 19431973
Girls / boys 140,425 / 1760 / 1,418

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 Kayvons are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kaylee Kayvon
England and Wales 1,23112

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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