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Kylah

#1,645 in 2025Girls' name

Narrows, through Kyla

Kylah has been given to 6,281 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,645 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 292 recorded.

Babies named Kylah, 2025

1 in 26,300

Kylah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kylah: meaning, origin, and history

Narrows, through Kyla

coinages

What Kylah means

Kylah belongs to the name family reached through Kylah → Kyla → Kyle. Its meaning is “narrows”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kylah is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Kylah is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kyla and Kyle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,281 girls were recorded with the name Kylah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 292 in 2009; its best national rank was #921 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,289 in 2020 to #1,645 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,115 in 2015 to #1,645 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kylah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,300
126 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,645
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kylah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kylah was born before 2010 — so the typical Kylah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,281
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (2,386).

Is Kylah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−388
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−356
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−530
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.2%
Peak was 2009 (292)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#921
2009

Spellings of Kylah

Kylah is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 30.6% against Kylah's 0.55%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kylah is used

Across 2016–2025, Kylah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 9,819 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

227 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 3,704
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 4,545
  3. 3Ohio1 in 4,762
  4. 4Alabama1 in 5,263
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 5,263
  6. 6Georgia1 in 5,556
  7. 7Virginia1 in 5,882
  8. 8Florida1 in 6,250

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Kylah around the world

Where Kylah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kylah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,645
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 356
Best rank ever
#921
2009
Peak year
2009
292 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,281
Count in 2025
126

Names similar to Kylah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kylah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kylah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kylah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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