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Kaylee vs Kaylynn

American parents have registered 140,601 Kaylees since 1880, against 12,257 Kaylynns. Kaylee is still ahead, with 1,205 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kaylee against Kaylynn, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kaylee Kaylynn

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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Kaylee for 56 years and Kaylynn for 19 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Kaylee Kaylynn
Total US births 140,60112,257
Most in one year 7,225590
Babies in 2025 1,205134
Estimated living today 139,00012,000
Median age today 1818
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 26th girls512th girls
Rank in 2025 255th1,570th
First recorded 19431947
Girls / boys 140,425 / 17612,252 / 5

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: Kaylee and Kaylynn.