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Kyler vs Kylynn

American parents have registered 41,378 Kylers since 1880, against 1,418 Kylynns. Kyler is still ahead, with 833 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyler 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

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 2018, when Kyler had 1,209 and Kylynn had 81.

Side by side

  Kyler Kylynn
Total US births 41,3781,418
Most in one year 1,72881
Babies in 2025 83342
Estimated living today 41,0001,400
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20192015
Best rank 236th boys2,382nd girls
Rank in 2025 404th3,903rd
First recorded 19221986
Girls / boys 2,405 / 38,9731,331 / 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 Kylers alive today are over 15; half the Kylynns are over 12. That is 3 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: Kyler and Kylynn.