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Kyleigh vs Kylynn

American parents have registered 20,199 Kyleighs since 1880, against 1,418 Kylynns. Kyleigh is still ahead, with 190 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyleigh Kylynn

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 2023, when Kyleigh had 226 and Kylynn had 58.

Side by side

  Kyleigh Kylynn
Total US births 20,1991,418
Most in one year 1,17281
Babies in 2025 19042
Estimated living today 20,0001,400
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20112015
Best rank 271st girls2,382nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,200th3,903rd
First recorded 19781986
Girls / boys 20,193 / 61,331 / 87

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 Kyleighs alive today are over 16; half the Kylynns are over 12. 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: Kyleigh and Kylynn.