Kylian
Kylian was given to 448 boys in 2025, #624 among boys’ names; 3,750 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,730 Americans named Kylian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 5.
Kylian dropped 164 places in 2025, the #18 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylian mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Kylian is “a male given name”
Borrowed from English Killian.
/ki.ljɑ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylian?
#624 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylian rose from #6,901 in 2015 to #624 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.01 to 0.26 per 1,000.
950 babies in 2023, the peak
Kylian peaked in 2023, when 950 boys were given it, #346 among boys’ names. The 448 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 448 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 681 | #460 | 0.40 |
| 2023 | 950 | #346 | 0.56 |
| 2022 | 567 | #525 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 315 | #782 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 212 | #1,001 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 227 | #947 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 173 | #1,120 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,370 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,901 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,273 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,292 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,611 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,709 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,898 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,709 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,887 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylian has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 21 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kylian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylian, and how old are they?
3,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,750 Americans ever recorded as Kylian. The median Kylian alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 5.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 62 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,660 |
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.
Where are babies named Kylian born?
The states with the most babies named Kylian are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 62 | #529 | 1.2× |
| California | 55 | #555 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 49 | #400 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #442 | 1.2× |
| New York | 22 | #674 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 19 | #553 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #508 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 15 | #510 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 11 | #456 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #779 | 0.7× |
Where Kylian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylian is most over-represented in Maryland: since 2002 it was given 1.7 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 Kylian 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,172 babies since 1880, Kylian is the fourth most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 448 of their 2,460 babies (18%), the third 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 Kylian
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 Kylian and names like it
- Compare Kylian and KillianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKylian peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylian since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Kylian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kylian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.