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Kylea vs Kyler

American parents have registered 41,378 Kylers since 1880, against 1,578 Kyleas. Kyler is still ahead, with 833 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kylea against Kyler, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kylea Kyler

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 66 years in which either name was published, Kyler for 65 years and Kylea for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kylea Kyler
Total US births 1,57841,378
Most in one year 831,728
Babies in 2025 7833
Estimated living today 1,60041,000
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20032019
Best rank 2,106th girls236th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd404th
First recorded 19781922
Girls / boys 1,578 / 02,405 / 38,973

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 Kyleas alive today are over 22; half the Kylers are over 15. That is 7 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: Kylea and Kyler.