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Kynlee vs Kynleigh

American parents have registered 6,242 Kynlees since 1880, against 1,997 Kynleighs. Kynlee is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kynlee against Kynleigh, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kynlee Kynleigh

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

Kynlee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1996 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Kynlee had 14 and Kynleigh had 11.

Side by side

  Kynlee Kynleigh
Total US births 6,2421,997
Most in one year 561189
Babies in 2025 15635
Estimated living today 6,2002,000
Median age today 910
Peak year 20172014
Best rank 552nd girls1,270th girls
Rank in 2025 1,396th4,067th
First recorded 19961999
Girls / boys 6,242 / 01,997 / 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.

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: Kynlee and Kynleigh.