Kila vs Kilian

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Kila Kilian

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 65 years in which either name was published, Kila for 34 years and Kilian for 31 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1957–1989 Kila ahead
• 1990–1997 Kilian ahead
• 1998 Kila ahead
• 1999 Kilian ahead
• 2000 Kila ahead
• 2001 Kilian ahead
• 2002–2003 Kila ahead
• 2004 Kilian ahead
• 2005 Kila ahead
• 2006–2025 Kilian ahead

Side by side

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 Kilas alive today are over 29; half the Kilians are over 7. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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