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Khyla vs Khyson

American parents have registered 1,054 Khylas since 1880, against 705 Khysons. But in 2025 it was Khyson that was commoner, 58 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khyla against Khyson, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khyla Khyson

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 32 years and Khyson for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Khyla Khyson
Total US births 1,054705
Most in one year 64122
Babies in 2025 1158
Estimated living today 1,000700
Median age today 173
Peak year 20112023
Best rank 2,725th girls1,473rd boys
Rank in 2025 8,860th2,363rd
First recorded 19812010
Girls / boys 1,054 / 00 / 705

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 Khysons are over 3. That is 14 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 Khyson.