Meaning not yet researched.
Kylin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,287 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,287 in 2022; #1,739 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Kylin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,739 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,287.
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Kylin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,287 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 149 (2022).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Kylin, making it the 1,739th most common boys’ name of the year, down 224 places from #1,515 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 118 boys named Kylin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,287, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #1,882 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Kylin, making it the 4,414th most common girls’ name of the year, down 483 places from #3,931 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 38 girls named Kylin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,472, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #2,634 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylin in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 11 babies. In all, 3,449 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,353 babies named Kylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,067 US boys were named Kylin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 149. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylin ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #637 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880), Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880), Kylian (3,750 babies since 1880) and Kilian (2,717 babies since 1880).
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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 Kylin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #637 | #673 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #640 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,222 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,235 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,386 | #2,276 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,390 | #1,313 |
| California | 6 | #2,352 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,414 | 94 | #1,739 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,931 | 118 | #1,515 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,876 | 132 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,141 | 149 | #1,287 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,977 | 123 | #1,466 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,472 | 106 | #1,559 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,589 | 115 | #1,489 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,186 | 72 | #2,021 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,959 | 80 | #1,851 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,949 | 78 | #1,896 |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,634 | 78 | #1,882 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,763 | 83 | #1,808 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,677 | 79 | #1,821 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,442 | 64 | #2,120 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,472 | 59 | #2,221 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,884 | 78 | #1,862 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,664 | 64 | #2,132 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,008 | 42 | #2,859 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,196 | 47 | #2,628 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,157 | 42 | #2,772 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,317 | 34 | #3,060 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,601 | 42 | #2,590 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,990 | 50 | #2,192 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,008 | 39 | #2,532 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,156 | 50 | #2,102 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,100 | 34 | #2,712 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,684 | 24 | #3,330 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,255 | 19 | #3,791 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,931 | 17 | #3,980 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,190 | 21 | #3,352 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,451 | 10 | #5,734 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,074 | 8 | #6,730 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,092 | 6 | #8,221 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,165 | 8 | #6,440 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,309 | 7 | #6,958 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,163 | 5 | #8,898 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,684 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,820 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,549 | 5 | #7,628 |
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).