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Khylan vs Khylee

American parents have registered 1,025 Khylees since 1880, against 745 Khylans. But in 2025 it was Khylan that was commoner, 39 babies to 22.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Khylan against Khylee, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Khylan 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 30 years in which either name was published, Khylee for 22 years and Khylan for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Khylan Khylee
Total US births 7451,025
Most in one year 8377
Babies in 2025 3922
Estimated living today 7401,000
Median age today 611
Peak year 20192013
Best rank 1,823rd boys2,364th girls
Rank in 2025 3,089th5,554th
First recorded 19961993
Girls / boys 11 / 7341,025 / 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 Khylees alive today are over 11; half the Khylans are over 6. That is 5 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: Khylan and Khylee.