girls:
118.8k births since 1960
#324 (94th percentile)
boys:
449 births since 1972
#4137 (10th percentile)
overall:
119.2k births since 1960
#604 (92nd percentile)
The name Kylie is the #604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 119,216 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #324 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 118,767 births since 1960. For boys, it ranks #4,137 (9.7% percentile) for all time with 449 births since 1972.
Kylie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Kylie is available in 60 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 41 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 Kylie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kylie reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 95.0% percentile (ranked #48) with 2,754 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 2,770 births per million (ranked 94.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kylie ranks #199 for girls (79.1% percentile) with 823 births per million, which is 29.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kylie reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #812) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kylie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kylie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.8% confident that Kylie is pronounced as KAI-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-LEE, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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