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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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.
See more about Kylin
- 218 spots since 2024 (#1,510 → #1,728)
- 172 spots since 2020 (#1,556 → #1,728)
- 142 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #1,728)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2022 at #1,284 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 37.6% of all boys named Kylin (786) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kylin in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 44,348 of them was named Kylin, which outranked 77.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,883Thora38
- #3,883Tyanna38
- #3,883Vicky38
- #3,935Kylin37
- #3,935Aanvi37
- #3,935Abigale37
- #3,935Adamaris37
- #4,014Aadhira36
- #4,014Aalani36
- #4,014Aamira36
Tied with 78 names at #3,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 14,223 of them was named Kylin, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,454Khamari124
- #1,454Massiah124
- #1,454Zaylen124
- #1,461Kylin123
- #1,461Anas123
- #1,461Atreyu123
- #1,461Emrys123
- #1,469Azai122
- #1,469Clinton122
- #1,469Cristopher122
Tied with 7 names at #1,461; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.