How rare is the name Kylah?

4,424 people in the United States have the first name Kylah, about 1 in 68,271. It ranks #4,293 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KYLAH

#4,293

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,424
About
1 in 68,271
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,424 people named Kylah, 40.3% reported their origin as White, 36.8% as Black and 11.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kylah peaked in 2009, when 292 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
292
In 2025*
126 ▼57%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,281 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kylah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,949. The largest share of babies named Kylah, 52.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#13,18840
1980s#8,377132
1990s#3,672624
2000s#1,9692,137
2010s#1,9492,386
2020s#2,593962
Generation X 1965–800.8%
Millennials 1981–966.5%
Generation Z 1997–1252.3%
2013 and later40.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kylah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kylah has been most common in Florida (2.7×), Georgia (2.3×), and Virginia (1.9×), and least common in Kentucky (0.46×).

4,335 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kylah

#4,290 Nyah · 4,427#4,292 Tanesha · 4,426#4,294 Kairi · 4,422#4,295 Hayleigh · 4,421

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kylah, most common first.

#1,123 Kyla · 36,384#17,090 Kyleah · 651#29,086 Kyliah · 306

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