Kylie
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.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kylie peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
81 people · the #47,863 first name in Brazil · median age 3
Among people named Kylie living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 44 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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.
The Kylie deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Kylie truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Kylie fits with your family’s names and surname.
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