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 | ||
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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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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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#460 · 1 in 1,831
- Louisiana#678 · 1 in 3,280
- Alabama#784 · 1 in 4,372
- Georgia#796 · 1 in 4,647
- Missouri#861 · 1 in 5,486
Best ever in a state: #231 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #460 | 6 | 1 in 1,831 |
| Louisiana | #678 | 6 | 1 in 3,280 |
| Alabama | #784 | 5 | 1 in 4,372 |
| Georgia | #796 | 11 | 1 in 4,647 |
| Missouri | #861 | 5 | 1 in 5,486 |
| North Carolina | #900 | 9 | 1 in 5,683 |
| Illinois | #1,038 | 7 | 1 in 7,171 |
| Virginia | #1,052 | 5 | 1 in 7,549 |
| Ohio | #1,136 | 6 | 1 in 8,782 |
| Florida | #1,475 | 7 | 1 in 13,662 |
| Texas | #1,701 | 10 | 1 in 17,879 |
| California | #2,466 | 5 | 1 in 36,052 |
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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.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 42,637 of them was named Kylin, which outranked 78.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,822Zailee39
- #3,822Zakiya39
- #3,822Zalia39
- #3,892Kylin38
- #3,892Aarvi38
- #3,892Abigael38
- #3,892Abigaelle38
- #3,963Aasiyah37
- #3,963Abbigail37
- #3,963Ahri37
Tied with 70 names at #3,892; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 14,601 of them was named Kylin, which outranked 89.4% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,503Jassiel119
- #1,503Luther119
- #1,503Zabdiel119
- #1,510Kylin118
- #1,510Ammar118
- #1,510Aris118
- #1,510Baron118
- #1,517Adnan117
- #1,517Finnian117
- #1,517Payton117
Tied with 6 names at #1,510; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.