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Kylo

#402 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kylo has been given to 5,431 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #402 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 870 recorded.

Babies named Kylo, 2025

1 in 4,160

Kylo over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kylo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kylo means

Kylo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kylo is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,345 boys were recorded with the name Kylo between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 870 in 2024; its best national rank was #374 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #449 in 2020 to #402 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,276 in 2015 to #402 in 2025.

In the United States, 86 girls were recorded with the name Kylo between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,102 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,702 in 2020 to #10,530 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 Kylo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,160
797 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,140
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#402
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,884 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kylo 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,884 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kylo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kylos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kylo was born before 2022 — so the typical Kylo is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
82.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,345
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (4,390).

Is Kylo 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
−28
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,874
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
22.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.6%
Peak was 2024 (870)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
114.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#374
2024

Spellings of Kylo

Kylo is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 62.7% against Kylo's 0.69%.

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 Kylo is used

Across 2016–2025, Kylo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,266 boys, against 1 in 3,136 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 10,000).

1079 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,266
  2. 2Nevada1 in 1,493
  3. 3Arizona1 in 2,041
  4. 4Florida1 in 2,128
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 2,128
  6. 6Ohio1 in 2,273
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 2,564
  8. 8Washington1 in 2,564

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.

Geographically, Kylo is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 24% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kylo around the world

Where Kylo 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
    2006–2025
    #321
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #607
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kylo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#402
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 47
Best rank ever
#374
2024
Peak year
2024
870 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,345
Count in 2025
797

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,530
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,828
Best rank ever
#7,102
2023
Peak year
2023
16 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kylo

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

KylenKylanMyloKylinKylarKylianKylonKylerKylorRyloKylandXyloZyloKylynKyleeKylieKyleKylilKyliamNyloKyllianShyloKylohSylo

Names with a curve like Kylo

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

CallahanEliamBanksOnyxSaintKylianWellsAtreusAnderKenzoKoaBaker

Sibling names for Kylo

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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