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Kyleigh vs Kyler

American parents have registered 41,378 Kylers since 1880, against 20,199 Kyleighs. Kyler is still ahead, with 833 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyleigh 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 Kyleigh for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kyleigh Kyler
Total US births 20,19941,378
Most in one year 1,1721,728
Babies in 2025 190833
Estimated living today 20,00041,000
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20112019
Best rank 271st girls236th boys
Rank in 2025 1,200th404th
First recorded 19781922
Girls / boys 20,193 / 62,405 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Kyleigh Kyler
Ireland 37

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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