Kylin
Kylin is given to both girls and boys: 32 girls and 94 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,413 among girls’ names and #1,739 among boys’, #3,028 among all names counting both); 3,449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Kylin every year since 2012.
An estimated 3,410 Americans named Kylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylin?
#1,739 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylin rose from #1,882 in 2015 to #1,739 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 40.7 to 55.0 per million.
201 babies in 2022, the peak
Kylin peaked in 2022, when 201 babies were given it (149 boys, #1,287 among boys’ names). The 126 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,413 | 94 | #1,739 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,931 | 118 | #1,515 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,874 | 132 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,141 | 149 | #1,287 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,974 | 123 | #1,466 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,472 | 106 | #1,559 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,588 | 115 | #1,489 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,185 | 72 | #2,020 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,958 | 80 | #1,851 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,949 | 78 | #1,896 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,634 | 78 | #1,882 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,761 | 83 | #1,808 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,676 | 79 | #1,820 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,441 | 64 | #2,119 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,471 | 59 | #2,220 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,883 | 78 | #1,861 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,663 | 64 | #2,131 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,007 | 42 | #2,858 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,196 | 47 | #2,628 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,156 | 42 | #2,771 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,313 | 34 | #3,056 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,597 | 42 | #2,586 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,986 | 50 | #2,188 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,004 | 39 | #2,528 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,150 | 50 | #2,098 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,094 | 34 | #2,707 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,678 | 24 | #3,326 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,251 | 19 | #3,787 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,927 | 17 | #3,975 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,185 | 21 | #3,346 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,446 | 10 | #5,728 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,068 | 8 | #6,724 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,086 | 6 | #8,215 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,159 | 8 | #6,433 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,302 | 7 | #6,951 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,157 | 5 | #8,889 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 11 | #4,678 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,815 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,544 | 5 | #7,621 |
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 Kylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,449 Americans recorded as Kylin, 39% are girls and 61% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylin, and how old are they?
3,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,449 Americans ever recorded as Kylin. The median Kylin alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,164 people named Kylin (1,044 women and girls, 1,120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,500 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 169 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,920 |
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 Kylin born?
The states with the most babies named Kylin are Texas, Florida and Louisiana, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,386 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,235 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #637 | 2.3× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #640 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,352 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,222 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,390 | 0.8× |
Where Kylin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylin is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1987 it was given 2.9 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 Kylin 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 29,827 babies since 1880, Kylin is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 1,706 babies (7.4%), the fifth 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 Kylin
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 Kylin and names like it
- Compare Kylin and KylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKylin peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylin since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kylin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.