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Kyler vs Kylia

American parents have registered 41,378 Kylers since 1880, against 1,059 Kylias. Kyler is still ahead, with 833 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyler Kylia

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 67 years in which either name was published, Kyler for 66 years and Kylia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kyler Kylia
Total US births 41,3781,059
Most in one year 1,72849
Babies in 2025 83311
Estimated living today 41,0001,000
Median age today 1521
Peak year 20192003
Best rank 236th boys3,043rd girls
Rank in 2025 404th8,860th
First recorded 19221959
Girls / boys 2,405 / 38,9731,059 / 0

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 Kylias alive today are over 21; half the Kylers are over 15. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kyler Kylia
France 10375

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: Kyler and Kylia.