girls:
63 births since 2016
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
55 births since 2014
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
118 births since 2014
#7621 (1st percentile)
The name Khylar is the #7,621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 2016. For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 2014.
Khylar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for boys and 2016 for girls).
The name Khylar is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Khylar were girls. Interestingly, until around 2019, the name was more popular for boys (60.0% boys from 2014 to 2018), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (61.6% girls from 2019 to 2023).
For girls, Khylar reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #926) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Khylar ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 34.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Khylar reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #920) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khylar".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Khylar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Khylar is pronounced as KAI-ler, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-lahr, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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