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Kyler vs Kylon

American parents have registered 41,378 Kylers since 1880, against 1,432 Kylons. Kyler is still ahead, with 833 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyler Kylon

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

Kyler has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1922 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Kyler had 7 and Kylon had 6.

Side by side

  Kyler Kylon
Total US births 41,3781,432
Most in one year 1,72857
Babies in 2025 83348
Estimated living today 41,0001,400
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20192016
Best rank 236th boys2,305th boys
Rank in 2025 404th2,676th
First recorded 19221974
Girls / boys 2,405 / 38,9730 / 1,432

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 Kyler Kylon
England and Wales 16720

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 Kylon.