Kylor
Kylor was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,631 among boys’ names; 505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylor?
#8,631 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylor fell from #6,902 in 2015 to #8,631 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 5.3 per million.
25 babies in 2009, the peak
Kylor peaked in 2009, when 25 babies were given it (20 boys, #4,850 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,631 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,488 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,023 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,678 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,926 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,146 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,359 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,192 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,424 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,051 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,902 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,979 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,098 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,614 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,333 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,618 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,850 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,827 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,912 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,965 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,452 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,358 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,284 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,584 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,824 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,793 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,909 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,674 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,367 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,294 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,355 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,681 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,545 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,434 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,259 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,849 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,484 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,022 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,774 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,775 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylor has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kylor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylor, and how old are they?
An estimated 496 Americans named Kylor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 412 people named Kylor (35 women and girls, 377 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 46,446 babies since 1880, Kylor is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 940 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Kylor
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 Kylor and names like it
- Compare Kylor and KylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKylor peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kylor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kylor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.