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Kyleigh vs Kylian

American parents have registered 20,199 Kyleighs since 1880, against 3,750 Kylians. But in 2025 it was Kylian that was commoner, 448 babies to 190.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyleigh against Kylian, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyleigh Kylian

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 48 years in which either name was published, Kyleigh for 43 years and Kylian for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyleigh Kylian
Total US births 20,1993,750
Most in one year 1,172950
Babies in 2025 190448
Estimated living today 20,0003,700
Median age today 162
Peak year 20112023
Best rank 271st girls345th boys
Rank in 2025 1,200th622nd
First recorded 19782002
Girls / boys 20,193 / 612 / 3,738

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 Kyleighs alive today are over 16; half the Kylians are over 2. That is 14 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 Kyleigh Kylian
Ireland 337

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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Related comparisons

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