Kylar
Kylar is given to both girls and boys: 24 girls and 29 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,322 among girls’ names and #3,813 among boys’, #5,441 among all names counting both); 3,082 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Kylar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kylar is “a male given name.”
/ˈkaɪ.lɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylar?
#3,813 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylar fell from #1,574 in 2015 to #3,813 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 53.7 to 17.0 per million.
188 babies in 2016, the peak
Kylar peaked in 2016, when 188 babies were given it (112 boys, #1,518 among boys’ names). The 53 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,322 | 29 | #3,813 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,524 | 44 | #2,895 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,946 | 39 | #3,149 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,254 | 58 | #2,425 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,523 | 71 | #2,069 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,994 | 82 | #1,823 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,806 | 93 | #1,707 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,592 | 92 | #1,713 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,595 | 85 | #1,797 |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,436 | 112 | #1,518 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,951 | 103 | #1,574 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,954 | 106 | #1,519 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,884 | 97 | #1,598 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,026 | 94 | #1,647 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,966 | 93 | #1,641 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,544 | 76 | #1,892 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,639 | 85 | #1,781 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,239 | 65 | #2,110 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,340 | 56 | #2,325 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,830 | 53 | #2,366 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,889 | 51 | #2,315 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,300 | 44 | #2,514 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,985 | 45 | #2,375 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,541 | 48 | #2,209 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,542 | 37 | #2,592 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,093 | 48 | #2,106 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,125 | 44 | #2,150 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,801 | 55 | #1,822 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,080 | 44 | #2,045 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,704 | 37 | #2,233 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,810 | 20 | #3,379 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,184 | 12 | #4,978 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,657 | 16 | #3,933 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,987 | 12 | #4,722 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,884 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kylar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,082 Americans recorded as Kylar, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylar, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,082 Americans ever recorded as Kylar. The median Kylar alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,266 people named Kylar (719 women and girls, 1,547 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 137 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kylar born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Kylar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylar is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kylar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 46,446 babies since 1880, Kylar is the second most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 940 babies (5.6%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kylar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kylar and names like it
- Compare Kylar and KylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKylar peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylar since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kylar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.