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Khylee

Gender
Girl
Say it
KY-lee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Khylee is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

What does Khylee mean?

Modern: spelling of Kylie; 20th-century Australian name, perhaps from Kyle

Often linked to kylie, a Western Australian Aboriginal word for a boomerang; Kylie Minogue is its best-known bearer.

Meaning borrowed from Kylie. More on Wiktionary.

Is Khylee a girl's or a boy's name?

Khylee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Khylee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,553among girls
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Khylee, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,840th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 77 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

2025 had fewer girls named Khylee than any year since 2007.

Half of all the girls named Khylee in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,142 girls in the US were given Khylee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #167, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 77 in 20132025
Khylee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202425#5,145
202343#3,584
202239#3,825
202143#3,552
202037#3,840
201935#4,071
201840#3,738
201756#2,925
201666#2,643
201574#2,456
201476#2,391
201377#2,364
201257#2,977
201163#2,762
201062#2,802
200961#2,851
200839#4,005
200713#9,003
200611#9,897
200513#8,325
200415#7,386
200317#6,571
20026#13,589
20016#13,514
20007#11,794
199912#7,710
19985#14,116
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19935#13,435

Names like Khylee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Khylee

Names related to Khylee

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Khylee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khylee, updated 20 October 2026.