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Kylah vs Kyleigh

American parents have registered 20,199 Kyleighs since 1880, against 6,281 Kylahs. Kyleigh is still ahead, with 190 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kylah Kyleigh

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 50 years in which either name was published, Kyleigh for 46 years and Kylah for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Kylah Kyleigh
Total US births 6,28120,199
Most in one year 2921,172
Babies in 2025 126190
Estimated living today 6,20020,000
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20092011
Best rank 921st girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 1,643rd1,200th
First recorded 19761978
Girls / boys 6,281 / 020,193 / 6

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kylah Kyleigh
Ireland 143

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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