girls:
1.2k births since 1989
#4516 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1989
#6538 (15th percentile)
The name Kylei is the #6,538 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,202 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 15.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,516 (21.0% percentile) for all time with 1,202 births since 1989.
Kylei first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (first recorded for girls in 1989). Birth data for Kylei is available in 32 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Kylei reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #864) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 40 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Kylei ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 27.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kylei".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kylei is pronounced as KAI-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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