Kylian

Where Kylian comes from

Kylian hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1995
    Kylian Hazard born
    Belgian association football player
  2. 2005
    First appearance
    #10,151 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2005
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2006
    Kylian Portal born
    French Paralympic swimmer
  5. 2023
    Peak, #345
    950 babies named Kylian — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #622.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kylian Hazard · Belgian association football player, born 1995
  • Kylian Portal · French Paralympic swimmer, born 2006
  • Kylian Gasnier · French footballer, born 2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.