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Kyland vs Kylie

American parents have registered 122,340 Kylies since 1880, against 908 Kylands. Kylie is still ahead, with 1,491 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyland against Kylie, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyland Kylie

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

Kylie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Kyland had 93 and Kylie had 1,599.

Side by side

  Kyland Kylie
Total US births 908122,340
Most in one year 935,597
Babies in 2025 651,491
Estimated living today 900121,000
Median age today 819
Peak year 20242003
Best rank 1,833rd boys52nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,183rd204th
First recorded 19851960
Girls / boys 10 / 898121,890 / 450

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 Kylies alive today are over 19; half the Kylands are over 8. That is 11 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: Kyland and Kylie.