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Kaylie vs Kayloni

American parents have registered 22,101 Kaylies since 1880, against 793 Kaylonis. Kaylie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaylie against Kayloni, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaylie Kayloni

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

Kaylie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kaylie had 148 and Kayloni had 45.

Side by side

  Kaylie Kayloni
Total US births 22,101793
Most in one year 1,19564
Babies in 2025 14845
Estimated living today 22,000790
Median age today 197
Peak year 20062021
Best rank 281st girls2,674th girls
Rank in 2025 1,452nd3,389th
First recorded 19681988
Girls / boys 22,101 / 0793 / 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 Kaylies alive today are over 19; half the Kaylonis are over 7. That is 12 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.

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