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Kaylie vs Kayonna

American parents have registered 22,101 Kaylies since 1880, against 571 Kayonnas. Kaylie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kaylie Kayonna

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

Of the 51 years in which either name was published, Kaylie for 50 years and Kayonna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kaylie Kayonna
Total US births 22,101571
Most in one year 1,19527
Babies in 2025 14819
Estimated living today 22,000570
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 281st girls5,279th girls
Rank in 2025 1,452nd6,116th
First recorded 19681977
Girls / boys 22,101 / 0571 / 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 Kayonnas are over 17. That is 2 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: Kaylie and Kayonna.