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Kylar

#3,813 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kylar has been given to 3,082 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,813 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 112 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% boys, 34% girls all-time.

Babies named Kylar, 2025

1 in 114,000

Kylar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Kylar over time

In 2025, Kylar went to 45% girls and 55% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Kylar: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kylar means

Kylar is a given name.

The naming story behind Kylar

Wikidata records Kylar as a given name. The entity identifier is Q82011847, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,046 boys were recorded with the name Kylar between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,518 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,823 in 2020 to #3,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,574 in 2015 to #3,813 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,036 girls were recorded with the name Kylar between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,436 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,994 in 2020 to #5,322 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,951 in 2015 to #5,322 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.

How common is Kylar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,813
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kylar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kylar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kylars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kylar was born before 2012 — so the typical Kylar is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,046
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (951).

Is Kylar 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
−918
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,990
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,239
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.9%
Peak was 2016 (112)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,518
2016

Spellings of Kylar

Kylar is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 34.9% against Kylar's 0.12%.

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 Kylar is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Kylar was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 37,720 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 12,500
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 12,500
  3. 3Indiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Where Kylar is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Kylar was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 134,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

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. Kylar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kylar around the world

Where Kylar 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
    2010–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kylar

People whose public names include Kylar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kylar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,990
Best rank ever
#1,518
2016
Peak year
2016
112 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,046
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,328
Best rank ever
#2,436
2016
Peak year
2016
76 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,036
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Kylar

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

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Names with a curve like Kylar

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

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Sibling names for Kylar

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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