Kylie
Kylie was given to 1,491 girls in 2025, #204 among girls’ names; 122,340 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 121,000 Americans named Kylie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kylie is “a female given name originating as a coinage; variant forms Khylie, Kilee, Kileigh, Kiley, Kylee, Kyleigh, Kyley, Kyly.” Its etymology gives the sense “boomerang” (kylie).
Uncertain, possibly from kylie (“boomerang”). Originally popular in Australia, the name has gained popularity elsewhere in the English-speaking world due to the fame of Kylie Minogue. Unrelated to Kyle, though often seen as its feminine equivalent.
/ˈkaɪ.li/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylie?
#204 among girls’ names, 2025
Kylie fell from #66 in 2015 to #204 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.3 to 0.93 per 1,000.
5,597 babies in 2004, the peak
Kylie peaked in 2004, when 5,597 babies were given it (5,557 girls, #49 among girls’ names). The 1,491 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,491 | #204 | 0.93 |
| 2024 | 1,599 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,444 | #207 | 0.90 |
| 2022 | 1,503 | #198 | 0.92 |
| 2021 | 1,807 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 2,022 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 2,263 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 2,432 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,704 | #114 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 3,427 | #83 | 1.9 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,162 | #66 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 3,962 | #73 | 2.2 |
| 2013 | 4,036 | #61 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 4,177 | #59 | 2.4 |
| 2011 | 4,351 | #57 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 4,606 | #57 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 4,389 | #62 | 2.4 |
| 2008 | 5,194 | #51 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 4,659 | #63 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 4,719 | #67 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 4,970 | #57 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5,557 | #49 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5,558 | #52 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 4,833 | #61 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 3,353 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 3,206 | #104 | 1.8 |
| 1999 | 3,012 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1998 | 2,879 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 2,746 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1996 | 2,798 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 3,152 | #106 | 1.8 |
| 1994 | 2,043 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1993 | 1,444 | #204 | 0.80 |
| 1992 | 1,554 | #195 | 0.84 |
| 1991 | 1,490 | #201 | 0.79 |
| 1990 | 1,612 | #180 | 0.85 |
| 1989 | 1,927 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 838 | #294 | 0.47 |
| 1987 | 492 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 450 | #478 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 361 | #549 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 313 | #584 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 260 | #662 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 244 | #713 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 229 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 327 | #568 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 491 | #426 | 0.31 |
| 1978 | 509 | #406 | 0.33 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,831 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,003 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,198 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,436 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylie has been given almost only to girls: 450 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kylie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylie, and how old are they?
121,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 122,340 Americans ever recorded as Kylie. The median Kylie alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 103,241 people named Kylie (102,835 women and girls, 406 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 111,865 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 67,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32,700 |
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 Kylie born?
The states with the most babies named Kylie are Texas, California and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 158 | #219 | 0.8× |
| California | 150 | #224 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 145 | #122 | 1.0× |
| New York | 89 | #184 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #163 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 60 | #131 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 59 | #172 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 48 | #226 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 47 | #238 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 40 | #207 | 0.8× |
Where Kylie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylie is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1960 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Kylie 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 230,420 babies since 1880, Kylie is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,491 of their 2,454 babies (61%), again the 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 Kylie
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 Kylie and names like it
- Compare Kylie and KyleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKylie peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylie since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kylie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Kylie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kylie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.