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Kylan vs Kylee

American parents have registered 50,835 Kylees since 1880, against 11,821 Kylans. But in 2025 it was Kylan that was commoner, 542 babies to 306.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kylan against Kylee, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kylan Kylee

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 59 years in which either name was published, Kylee for 54 years and Kylan for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kylan Kylee
Total US births 11,82150,835
Most in one year 6102,404
Babies in 2025 542306
Estimated living today 12,00050,000
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 515th boys142nd girls
Rank in 2025 578th875th
First recorded 19691965
Girls / boys 1,087 / 10,73450,337 / 498

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 Kylees alive today are over 19; half the Kylans are over 11. That is 8 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Kylan Kylee
France 73050

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