Meaning not yet researched.
Kylah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #921 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #921 in 2009; #1,645 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kylah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,645 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #921.
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Kylah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 girls in 2025. Peak: #921 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 292 (2009).
In 2025, 126 US girls were named Kylah, making it the 1,645th most common girls’ name of the year, down 388 places from #1,257 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 186 girls named Kylah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #921, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 292. For comparison, it was #1,115 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 6,281 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,386 babies named Kylah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,775 US girls were named Kylah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 247. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,756 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylah ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #702 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyla (43,703 babies since 1880), Keyla (9,881 babies since 1880) and Keilah (1,602 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kylayah and Kielah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kylayah (25), Kielah (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kylah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #702 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #773 | #769 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,122 | #610 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,216 | #863 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,367 | #1,022 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,620 | #921 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,674 | #1,388 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2023 | 190 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 2022 | 127 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 2021 | 160 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2019 | 176 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2018 | 207 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2017 | 183 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2016 | 247 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2015 | 230 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 2014 | 273 | #977 | — | — |
| 2013 | 262 | #963 | — | — |
| 2012 | 262 | #969 | — | — |
| 2011 | 274 | #942 | — | — |
| 2010 | 272 | #946 | — | — |
| 2009 | 292 | #921 | — | — |
| 2008 | 261 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 2007 | 268 | #997 | — | — |
| 2006 | 227 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2005 | 217 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2004 | 198 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2003 | 219 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2002 | 175 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1997 | 105 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,908 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,674 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,481 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,139 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,636 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,976 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,662 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,191 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,531 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,595 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,050 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).