girls:
1.7k births since 1948
#4075 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1948
#6062 (22nd percentile)
The name Kylene is the #6,062 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,688 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 21.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,075 (28.7% percentile) for all time with 1,688 births since 1948.
Kylene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for girls in 1948). Birth data for Kylene is available in 61 out of the 74 years between 1948 and 2021. 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, Kylene reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 25.2% percentile (ranked #588) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 119 births per million (ranked 25.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kylene".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kylene is pronounced as KAI-leen, which has 2 syllables.
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