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Khyla vs Khylee

American parents have registered 1,054 Khylas since 1880, against 1,025 Khylees. But in 2025 it was Khylee that was commoner, 22 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khyla against Khylee, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khyla Khylee

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 39 years in which either name was published, Khyla for 23 years and Khylee for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Khyla Khylee
Total US births 1,0541,025
Most in one year 6477
Babies in 2025 1122
Estimated living today 1,0001,000
Median age today 1711
Peak year 20112013
Best rank 2,725th girls2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th5,554th
First recorded 19811993
Girls / boys 1,054 / 01,025 / 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 Khylas alive today are over 17; half the Khylees are over 11. That is 6 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: Khyla and Khylee.