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Kyleah vs Kylie

American parents have registered 122,340 Kylies since 1880, against 942 Kyleahs. Kylie is still ahead, with 1,491 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyleah 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 2023, when Kyleah had 25 and Kylie had 1,444.

Side by side

  Kyleah Kylie
Total US births 942122,340
Most in one year 455,597
Babies in 2025 191,491
Estimated living today 930121,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20112003
Best rank 3,496th girls52nd girls
Rank in 2025 6,116th204th
First recorded 19841960
Girls / boys 942 / 0121,890 / 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 Kyleahs are over 15. That is 4 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: Kyleah and Kylie.