Kylah
#1,643 for girls in 2025, 126 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 292 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,281since 1976
Kylah over time
Rank among girls' names. Kylah has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,643 | 126 |
| 2024 | #1,250 | 186 |
| 2023 | #1,232 | 190 |
| 2022 | #1,659 | 127 |
| 2021 | #1,375 | 160 |
| 2020 | #1,287 | 173 |
| 2019 | #1,302 | 176 |
| 2018 | #1,162 | 207 |
| 2017 | #1,287 | 183 |
| 2016 | #1,055 | 247 |
| 2015 | #1,115 | 230 |
| 2014 | #977 | 273 |
| 2013 | #961 | 262 |
| 2012 | #967 | 262 |
| 2011 | #940 | 274 |
| 2010 | #944 | 272 |
| 2009 | #921 | 292 |
| 2008 | #1,011 | 261 |
| 2007 | #995 | 268 |
| 2006 | #1,102 | 227 |
| 2005 | #1,096 | 217 |
| 2004 | #1,149 | 198 |
| 2003 | #1,043 | 219 |
| 2002 | #1,175 | 175 |
| 2001 | #1,368 | 139 |
| 2000 | #1,335 | 141 |
| 1999 | #1,515 | 113 |
| 1998 | #1,416 | 121 |
| 1997 | #1,530 | 105 |
| 1996 | #1,466 | 112 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kylah! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kylah is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#538 · 1 in 2,163
- Louisiana#632 · 1 in 2,642
- Wisconsin#634 · 1 in 2,968
- Florida#823 · 1 in 4,470
- Arizona#830 · 1 in 3,951
Best ever in a state: #324 in Mississippi, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #538 | 8 | 1 in 2,163 |
| Louisiana | #632 | 7 | 1 in 2,642 |
| Wisconsin | #634 | 7 | 1 in 2,968 |
| Florida | #823 | 18 | 1 in 4,470 |
| Arizona | #830 | 7 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Tennessee | #862 | 7 | 1 in 4,338 |
| Missouri | #937 | 5 | 1 in 4,896 |
| Indiana | #1,014 | 5 | 1 in 5,603 |
| North Carolina | #1,085 | 7 | 1 in 6,233 |
| Ohio | #1,152 | 7 | 1 in 6,843 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Michigan | #1,218 | 5 | 1 in 7,570 |
| Georgia | #1,279 | 6 | 1 in 7,415 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,400 | 5 | 1 in 9,670 |
| Texas | #1,541 | 14 | 1 in 10,924 |
| California | #2,167 | 9 | 1 in 19,357 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kylah
- 393 spots since 2024 (#1,250 → #1,643)
- 356 spots since 2020 (#1,287 → #1,643)
- 528 spots since 2015 (#1,115 → #1,643)
- Biggest jump: 107 spots in 2007 (#1,102 → #995)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 2015 (#977 → #1,115)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2009 at #921 (292 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2009–2014
- Highest: 1 in 6,291 girls born in 2009 were named Kylah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,756 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.0% of all girls named Kylah (2,386) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #3,777 (1979) | #6,991 |
| 1980s | 132 | #4,478 (1984) | #5,623 |
| 1990s | 624 | #1,416 (1998) | #3,067 |
| 2000s | 2,137 | #921 (2009) | #1,120 |
| 2010s | 2,386 | #940 (2011) | #1,071 |
| 2020s | 962 | #1,232 (2023) | #1,408 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kylah in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 9,344 of them was named Kylah, which outranked 92.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).