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Kylie

Girl · KY-lee · Modern

Kylie is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,163rd for girls in the UK (30 babies) and 204th for girls in the US (1,491 babies).

What does Kylie mean?

Modern: 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.

Say it
KY-lee

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

Kylie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls in the UK and 1,491 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kylie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,163among girls
Babies in 2025
30about 1 in 9,300 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 10% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the UK were named Kylie, making it the 1,163rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,089th. Its busiest year was 1998, with 110 girls.

Half of all the girls named Kylie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,110th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 110 in 19982025
Kylie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#1,163
202429#1,208
202331#1,151
202235#1,051
202138#993
202033#1,089
201939#981
201828#1,274
201730#1,213
201631#1,189
201516#1,900
201436#1,053
201332#1,165
201228#1,259
201144#887
201038#968
200923#1,360
200837#946
200731#1,026
200645#757
200533#900
200435#853
200369#511
200266#501
200164#511
200043#654
199958#550
1998110#351
199749#599
199679#432

How popular is Kylie in the US?

Rank in 2025
#204among girls
Babies in 2025
1,491about 1 in 1,100 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 32% in five years
Same name in a class
1.3%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 1,491 girls in the US were named Kylie, making it the 204th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 132nd. Its busiest year was 2003, with 5,558 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.

Half of all the girls named Kylie in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,142 girls in the US were given Kylie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #167, up from #204 for this spelling alone.

In 2022, over 99% of the babies named Kylie in the US were girls.

1960Busiest: 5,558 in 20032025
Kylie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20251,491#204
20241,599#189
20231,444#207
20221,503#198
20211,807#159
20202,022#132
20192,263#125
20182,432#124
20172,704#114
20163,427#83
20154,162#66
20143,962#73
20134,036#61
20124,177#59
20114,351#57
20104,606#57
20094,389#62
20085,194#51
20074,659#63
20064,719#66
20054,970#57
20045,557#49
20035,558#52
20024,833#61
20013,353#95
20003,206#104
19993,012#109
19982,879#117
19972,746#116
19962,798#111
19953,152#106
19942,043#158
19931,444#204
19921,554#195
19911,490#201
19901,612#180
19891,927#150
1988838#293
1987492#447
1986450#478
1985361#549
1984313#584
1983260#661
1982244#710
1981229#720
1980327#567
1979491#426
1978509#406
197747#2,026
197627#2,791
197544#1,986
197440#2,066
197336#2,171
197225#2,747
197120#3,266
197017#3,576
19696#6,615
19688#5,146
19670–
19665#6,563
19650–
19647#5,473
19630–
19626#5,859
19610–
19607#5,167

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