girls:
5 births since 2011
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
629 births since 1996
#3957 (14th percentile)
overall:
634 births since 1996
#7105 (8th percentile)
The name Khylan is the #7,105 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 634 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 8.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,957 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 629 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2011.
Khylan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Khylan is available in 23 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023 (23 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Khylan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Khylan reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #839) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 43 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Khylan ranks #866 for boys (4.9% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 63.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Khylan reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khylan".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Khylan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Khylan is pronounced as KAI-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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