girls:
1.6k births since 1978
#4168 (27th percentile)
boys:
76 births since 1970
#4510 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1970
#6085 (21st percentile)
The name Kyley is the #6,085 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,664 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,168 (27.1% percentile) for all time with 1,588 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,510 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 76 births since 1970.
Kyley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Kyley is available in 48 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (45 years for girls and 13 years for boys). 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 Kyley has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.4% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1978, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1970 to 1977), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (96.3% girls from 1978 to 2023).
For girls, Kyley reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #825) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 37 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kyley ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kyley reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kyley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kyley is pronounced as KAI-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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