girls:
12 births since 2002
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 2005
#2470 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 2002
#5242 (32nd percentile)
The name Kylian is the #5,242 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,618 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 32.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,470 (46.1% percentile) for all time with 2,606 births since 2005. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2002.
Kylian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Kylian is available in 19 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Kylian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for girls (53.8% girls from 2002 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (99.8% boys from 2006 to 2023).
For boys, Kylian reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 64.2% percentile (ranked #327) with 518 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 518 births per million (ranked 64.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kylian is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #327 (64.2% percentile) with 518 births per million.
For girls, Kylian reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #892) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kylian".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kylian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.2% confident that Kylian is pronounced as KIH-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-lee-uhn, at 20.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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