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Kylie

girl name
Origin
English
Syllables
2
Peak era
2000s/2010s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

modern coinage, popularly linked to Aboriginal Australian "boomerang"

The story

Kylie is a modern coinage with an Australian accent. It is popularly linked to an Aboriginal Australian word for boomerang, a story often retold and hard to pin down, and it flourished first as a distinctly Australian favorite before traveling abroad. Americans discovered it slowly: a flicker in the records from the 1960s, modest growth through the 1980s, then a real climb in the 1990s and 2000s. It is hard not to notice that Kylie Minogue was conquering pop radio during exactly those years, and that Kylie Jenner, born in 1997, grew up into one of the most followed celebrities alive as the name held near its peak through the 2010s. It has given back only a little since. Whatever share of credit belongs to the famous Kylies, the name itself does the rest: light, bright, and quick off the tongue.

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How popular is Kylie around the world?

In the United States, 9,873 babies were named Kylie between 2020 and 2025. In Puerto Rico, 9 babies were named Kylie in 2025, and 65 have carried the name since 1998.

Kylie is on the official records of the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Chile, Mexico City, Scotland, South Australia, England and Wales, France, Poland, Argentina, Spain and Brazil.

United States

1 in 2,200

In the United States, 9,873 babies were named Kylie between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 2000s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kylie peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. Kylie went to 4,167 US babies in 2015 and 1,491 in 2025, 36% of the earlier figure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Puerto Rico

1 in 2,000

In Puerto Rico, 9 babies were named Kylie in 2025, and 65 have carried the name since 1998.

1998peak 2025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Canada

1 in 2,600

In Canada, 142 girls named Kylie were born in 2024, the 204th most common name among girls that year.

1991peak 20032024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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New Zealand

1 in 5,800

In New Zealand, 10 girls named Kylie were registered in 2025.

1960peak 19772025

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time

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Ireland

1 in 6,000

In Ireland, 9 girls named Kylie were born in 2025, the 413th most common name among girls that year.

peak 19892025

share of that year’s name registrations

Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names

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Chile

1 in 7,100

In Chile, 25 girls were registered as Kylie in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1990peak 2020

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Mexico City City

1 in 15,000

In Mexico City, there were 8 registrations of Kylie in 2022.

2000peak 2018

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Scotland

1 in 15,000

In Scotland, 3 girls named Kylie were registered in 2024, the 790th most common name among girls that year.

1974peak 19882024

share of that year’s name registrations

Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names

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South Australia

1 in 18,000 · 2017

In South Australia, 1 girl was registered as Kylie in 2017.

1944peak 19732017

share of that year’s name registrations

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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England and Wales

1 in 20,000

In England and Wales, 30 girls named Kylie were born in 2025, ranked 1,110th among girls that year.

peak 19982025

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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France

1 in 26,000

In France, about 25 girls named Kylie were born in 2025, ranked 1,292nd among girls that year.

1980peak 2016

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Poland

1 in 120,000

In Poland, 2 girls named Kylie were born in 2025, the 706th most common name among girls that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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Argentina

1 in 170,000

In Argentina, 4 newborns were given the name Kylie in 2024.

2012peak 20202024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Spain

1 in 250,000

In Spain, 183 residents are named Kylie, ranked 4,769th among women, with a mean age of 7.5 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Austria

last on record 2024

Kylie is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Brazil

At the 2022 census, 81 people in Brazil were named Kylie, ranked 47,863rd, with a median age of 3.
Among people named Kylie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.

peak 2010s2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 44 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Montevideo City

last on record 1999

Kylie is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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New South Wales

outside the top 100

Kylie is not in the 2025 top 100 for New South Wales.

1952peak 19742025

share of that year’s top-100 registrations

New South Wales (not all of Australia) publishes only each year’s 100 most popular names per sex, so a missing year means below that top 100, not rare. Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, popular baby names

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Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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When you meet Kylie

Most people given the name Kylie in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

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