Kylei
Kylei was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,125 among girls’ names; 1,237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Kylei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylei?
#8,125 among girls’ names, 2025
Kylei fell from #3,371 in 2015 to #8,125 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 8.1 per million.
78 babies in 2012, the peak
Kylei peaked in 2012, when 78 girls were given it, #2,389 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,125 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,714 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,290 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,100 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,198 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,313 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,884 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,114 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,809 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,821 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,371 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,632 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,714 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,389 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,604 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,628 | 38.8 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,793 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,073 | 29.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,686 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,595 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,998 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,298 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,937 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,766 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,384 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,121 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,785 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,221 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,522 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,871 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,165 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,859 | 7.1 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,814 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,396 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kylei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylei, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,237 Americans ever recorded as Kylei. The median Kylei alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 918 people named Kylei (889 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,079 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 490 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 248,672 babies since 1880, Kylei is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 2,515 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kylei
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 Kylei and names like it
- Compare Kylei and KylieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKylei peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylei since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kylei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kylei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.