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Kynlee vs Kynlie

American parents have registered 6,242 Kynlees since 1880, against 568 Kynlies. Kynlee is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kynlee Kynlie

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 2004, when Kynlee had 40 and Kynlie had 16.

Side by side

  Kynlee Kynlie
Total US births 6,242568
Most in one year 56162
Babies in 2025 1568
Estimated living today 6,200560
Median age today 912
Peak year 20172011
Best rank 552nd girls2,796th girls
Rank in 2025 1,396th10,917th
First recorded 19962000
Girls / boys 6,242 / 0568 / 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 Kynlies alive today are over 12; half the Kynlees are over 9. 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: Kynlee and Kynlie.