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Kyndal vs Kynlee

American parents have registered 6,242 Kynlees since 1880, against 4,827 Kyndals. Kynlee is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kyndal Kynlee

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, Kyndal for 32 years and Kynlee for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kyndal Kynlee
Total US births 4,8276,242
Most in one year 282561
Babies in 2025 39156
Estimated living today 4,8006,200
Median age today 169
Peak year 20112017
Best rank 934th girls552nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,780th1,396th
First recorded 19691996
Girls / boys 4,688 / 1396,242 / 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 Kyndals alive today are over 16; half the Kynlees are over 9. That is 7 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: Kyndal and Kynlee.