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Kylee vs Kylyn

American parents have registered 50,835 Kylees since 1880, against 548 Kylyns. Kylee is still ahead, with 306 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kylee against Kylyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kylee Kylyn

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

Kylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Kylee had 468 and Kylyn had 28.

Side by side

  Kylee Kylyn
Total US births 50,835548
Most in one year 2,40429
Babies in 2025 30616
Estimated living today 50,000540
Median age today 1914
Peak year 20082016
Best rank 142nd girls6,186th girls
Rank in 2025 875th13,208th
First recorded 19651991
Girls / boys 50,337 / 498397 / 151

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 Kylees alive today are over 19; half the Kylyns are over 14. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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