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Kyleah vs Kyleigh

American parents have registered 20,199 Kyleighs since 1880, against 942 Kyleahs. Kyleigh is still ahead, with 190 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyleah 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

Kyleigh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Kyleah had 5 and Kyleigh had 17.

Side by side

  Kyleah Kyleigh
Total US births 94220,199
Most in one year 451,172
Babies in 2025 19190
Estimated living today 93020,000
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20112011
Best rank 3,496th girls271st girls
Rank in 2025 6,116th1,200th
First recorded 19841978
Girls / boys 942 / 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.

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