girls:
6k births since 1976
#2150 (62nd percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1976
#3512 (55th percentile)
The name Kylah is the #3,512 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,964 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 54.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,150 (62.4% percentile) for all time with 5,964 births since 1976.
Kylah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976).
For girls, Kylah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 29.4% percentile (ranked #677) with 144 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 144 births per million (ranked 29.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kylah ranks #762 for girls (19.6% percentile) with 109 births per million, which is 75.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kylah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kylah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kylah is pronounced as KAI-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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