Kylin
- #4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births
- #1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
- Given to boys 60.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 149 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,093since 1987
Kylin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,352 | 32 | #1,728 | 94 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #1,510 | 118 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | #1,397 | 132 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 | #1,284 | 149 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | #1,461 | 123 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | #1,556 | 106 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 | #1,485 | 115 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | #2,017 | 72 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | #1,844 | 80 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 | #1,890 | 78 |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #2,739 | 63 | #1,794 | 83 |
| 2013 | #2,661 | 66 | #1,811 | 79 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 | #2,203 | 59 |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 | #1,850 | 78 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 | #2,602 | 47 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 | #2,180 | 50 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | #4,527 | 11 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
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First appearance
1987
The first year at least five boys were named Kylin! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kylin is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- Louisiana#591 · 1 in 2,733
- South Carolina#608 · 1 in 3,028
- North Carolina#1,144 · 1 in 8,578
- Florida#1,191 · 1 in 9,553
- Ohio#1,267 · 1 in 10,507
Best ever in a state: #231 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| South Carolina | #608 | 7 | 1 in 3,028 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| Florida | #1,191 | 10 | 1 in 9,553 |
| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
| Texas | #1,347 | 14 | 1 in 12,504 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 172 spots since 2020 (#1,556 → #1,728)
- 142 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #1,728)
Rise & fade · boys
35 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2022 at #1,284 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,718
- Highest: 1 in 11,718 boys born in 2022 were named Kylin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 37.6% of all boys named Kylin (786) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2012
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16 | #4,527 (1989) | #5,739 |
| 1990s | 125 | #3,279 (1999) | #5,443 |
| 2000s | 444 | #2,086 (2001) | #2,533 |
| 2010s | 786 | #1,485 (2019) | #1,887 |
| 2020s | 722 | #1,284 (2022) | #1,489 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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