Kylo
Kylo was given to 797 boys in 2025, #402 among boys’ names; 5,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,390 Americans named Kylo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kylo is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylo?
#402 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylo rose from #3,276 in 2015 to #402 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.47 per 1,000.
883 babies in 2024, the peak
Kylo peaked in 2024, when 883 babies were given it (870 boys, #374 among boys’ names). The 806 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 797 | #402 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 870 | #374 | 0.50 |
| 2023 | 788 | #406 | 0.46 |
| 2022 | 715 | #433 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 558 | #526 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 662 | #449 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 237 | #924 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 254 | #865 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,150 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 238 | #908 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,276 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,265 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,590 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,431 Americans recorded as Kylo, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls and 797 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylo, and how old are they?
5,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,431 Americans ever recorded as Kylo. The median Kylo alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 6.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,380 |
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 Kylo born?
The states with the most babies named Kylo are Florida, California and Texas, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 79 | #266 | 1.3× |
| California | 78 | #420 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 72 | #466 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 41 | #306 | 0.9× |
| New York | 39 | #441 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #337 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 30 | #371 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #423 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 20 | #403 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 19 | #405 | 1.3× |
Where Kylo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylo is most over-represented in Florida: since 1979 it was given 1.3 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 Kylo 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 503,884 babies since 1880, Kylo is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 806 of their 1,471 babies (55%), the 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 Kylo
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 Kylo and names like it
- Compare Kylo and KyleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKylo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylo since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kylo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.