Meaning not yet researched.
Kylo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 797 in 2025. Its best rank was #374 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #374 in 2024; #402 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Kylo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#402 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #374.
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Kylo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 797 boys in 2025. Peak: #374 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 870 (2024).
In 2025, 797 US boys were named Kylo, making it the 402nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 28 places from #374 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 870 boys named Kylo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #374, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 870. For comparison, it was #3,277 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylo in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 5,431 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,464 babies named Kylo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,284 US boys were named Kylo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 870. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,143 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylo ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #164 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kilo, Kyloh and Kyalo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kilo (116), Kyloh (62), Kyalo (5).
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 Kylo 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 8 | #164 | — |
| South Dakota | 8 | #182 | — |
| Nevada | 12 | #256 | — |
| Florida | 79 | #266 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #275 | — |
| Louisiana | 18 | #286 | — |
| Georgia | 41 | #306 | — |
| Alabama | 18 | #308 | — |
| Maryland | 18 | #311 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #337 | — |
| South Carolina | 16 | #337 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #343 | — |
| Ohio | 30 | #371 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #400 | — |
| Tennessee | 20 | #403 | — |
| Arizona | 19 | #405 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #410 | — |
| Colorado | 15 | #411 | — |
| California | 78 | #420 | #2,778 |
| Oregon | 9 | #420 | — |
| North Carolina | 26 | #423 | — |
| Indiana | 17 | #423 | — |
| Virginia | 19 | #424 | — |
| New York | 39 | #441 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #445 | — |
| New Jersey | 17 | #460 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #462 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #464 | — |
| Texas | 72 | #466 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #468 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #491 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #497 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #504 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #549 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #591 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #624 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #655 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #711 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).