Kylah Girl
How popular is Kylah?
#1,643 girl name in 2025
126 baby girls were named Kylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1643rd most popular girl name.
Kylah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,643 for girls (▼ 393 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 126 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-45% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,115 in 2015, #1,287 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2009 (292 girls) |
| Highest rank | #921 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1976 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kylah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kyla family of names ranked #446 for girls in 2025 (#403 the year before), with 660 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kyla | 512 | 78% |
| Kylah | 126 | 19% |
| Kilah | 17 | 3% |
| Kila | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kylah is most popular
Babies named Kylah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Alabama: 0.2 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Virginia: 0.2 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Ohio: 0.2 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (42 girls)
Kylah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #3,776 |
| 1980s | 132 | #4,477 |
| 1990s | 624 | #1,414 |
| 2000s | 2,137 | #921 |
| 2010s | 2,386 | #940 |
| 2020s | 962 | #1,232 |
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Questions
- Is Kylah a boy or girl name?
- Kylah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kylah were girls.
- How popular is the name Kylah?
- 126 baby girls were named Kylah in the US in 2025, making it the 1643rd most popular girl name.
- When was Kylah most popular?
- Kylah peaked in 2009, when 292 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #921 in 2009.
- How many people are named Kylah?
- 6,281 babies have been named Kylah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,230 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Kylah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kylah was most common in Alabama, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.