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Kylie vs Kylor

American parents have registered 122,340 Kylies since 1880, against 505 Kylors. Kylie is still ahead, with 1,491 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kylie against Kylor, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kylie Kylor

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

Kylie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Kylie had 460 and Kylor had 12.

Side by side

  Kylie Kylor
Total US births 122,340505
Most in one year 5,59725
Babies in 2025 1,4919
Estimated living today 121,000500
Median age today 1916
Peak year 20032010
Best rank 52nd girls4,517th boys
Rank in 2025 204th8,243rd
First recorded 19601986
Girls / boys 121,890 / 4505 / 500

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 Kylies alive today are over 19; half the Kylors are over 16. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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