Kylyn
Kylyn is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,135 among girls’ names and #7,986 among boys’, #12,091 among all names counting both); 548 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylyn?
#14,135 among girls’ names, 2025
Kylyn fell from #10,532 in 2015 to #14,135 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
29 babies in 2016, the peak
Kylyn peaked in 2016, when 29 babies were given it (20 girls, #6,300 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,135 | 10 | #7,986 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,685 | 12 | #7,076 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,752 | 10 | #8,024 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,366 | 8 | #9,481 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,281 | 15 | #5,913 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,257 | 9 | #8,445 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,150 | 7 | #10,360 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,263 | 10 | #7,923 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,200 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,300 | 9 | #8,536 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,532 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,878 | 5 | #13,202 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,227 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,304 | 6 | #11,629 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,094 | 6 | #11,661 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,542 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,686 | 6 | #11,841 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,762 | 5 | #13,716 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,879 | 10 | #7,924 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,008 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,128 | 5 | #12,529 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,002 | 7 | #9,509 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,808 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,261 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,806 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,000 | 6 | #9,794 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,178 | 5 | #10,881 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,300 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,325 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,515 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,166 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,641 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,668 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,582 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,311 | under 5 |
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 Kylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 548 Americans recorded as Kylyn, 72% are girls and 28% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 543 Americans named Kylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Kylyn (322 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 424 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,965 babies since 1880, Kylyn is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 83 babies (19%), the second 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 Kylyn
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 Kylyn and names like it
- Compare Kylyn and KylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKylyn peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kylyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kylyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.