Kylie
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kylie is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Of Australian origin, said to represent an Aboriginal term for the boomerang.
- AUAustralia1 in 583◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 2.7K
- USUnited States1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈124K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 417 ●
- 1 in 2.9K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
300K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaili in IN India, VE Venezuela, EE Estonia and 2 more and קיילי in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Of Australian origin, said to represent an Aboriginal term for the boomerang. However, it seems more likely that the name is an invention, influenced by OKyle and pKelly. It is extremely popular in Australia and, in part due to the Australian actress Kylie Minogue (b. 1968), it has also acquired some currency in Britain and elsewhere. Variants: Kyley, Kylee, Kyleigh.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #102 | 198,789 | 120K rec. | — | 100 | Kylie | 261 |
| US United States | — | 115,261 | 131K rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 115K | Kylie | 417 |
| IN India | — | 24,042 | 20K rec. | — | 59 | Kaili | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | #997 | 13,318 | 11K rec. | — | 4 | Kylie | 160 |
| CA Canada | #798 | 10,212 | 3K rec. | — | 22 | Kylie | 144 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,657△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 4.6K | 3.7K | Kylie | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,252△ | 512 rec. | 1 in 5.3K | 3.3K | Kylie | 54 |
| NZ New Zealand | #179 | 3,223 | 1.8K rec. | — | 16 | Kylie | 110 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,334 | 872 rec. | — | — | Kylie | 61 |
| EE Estonia | #401 | 1,011 | 232 rec. | — | 76 | Kaili | 27 |
| FR France | — | 980 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 69K | 980 | Kylie | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 733 | 681 rec. | — | — | Kylie | 39 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English364K90%
- Spanish9.3K2%
- French5.7K1%
- 4K1%
- German1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 364,007 | 90% |
| Spanish | 9,326 | 2% |
| French | 5,678 | 1% |
| 3,978 | 1% | |
| German | 1,680 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kylie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nys, boomerang; usually of the non-returning, hooked (beaked) form
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 17 |
| 1971 | 20 |
| 1972 | 25 |
| 1973 | 36 |
| 1974 | 40 |
| 1975 | 44 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 47 |
| 1978 | 509 |
| 1979 | 491 |
| 1980 | 327 |
| 1981 | 229 |
| 1982 | 244 |
| 1983 | 260 |
| 1984 | 313 |
| 1985 | 361 |
| 1986 | 450 |
| 1987 | 492 |
| 1988 | 838 |
| 1989 | 1,927 |
| 1990 | 1,612 |
| 1991 | 1,490 |
| 1992 | 1,554 |
| 1993 | 1,444 |
| 1994 | 2,043 |
| 1995 | 3,152 |
| 1996 | 2,798 |
| 1997 | 2,746 |
| 1998 | 2,879 |
| 1999 | 3,012 |
| 2000 | 3,206 |
| 2001 | 3,353 |
| 2002 | 4,833 |
| 2003 | 5,558 |
| 2004 | 5,557 |
| 2005 | 4,970 |
| 2006 | 4,719 |
| 2007 | 4,659 |
| 2008 | 5,194 |
| 2009 | 4,389 |
| 2010 | 4,606 |
| 2011 | 4,351 |
| 2012 | 4,177 |
| 2013 | 4,036 |
| 2014 | 3,962 |
| 2015 | 4,162 |
| 2016 | 3,427 |
| 2017 | 2,704 |
| 2018 | 2,432 |
| 2019 | 2,263 |
| 2020 | 2,022 |
| 2021 | 1,807 |
| 2022 | 1,503 |
| 2023 | 1,444 |
| 2024 | 1,599 |
| 2025 | 1,491 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 62 years between 1960–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kylie Travisb. 1966AUAustralian actress
- Kylie Minogueb. 1968AUAustralian singer and actress (born 1968)
- Kylie Irelandb. 1970USAmerican pornographic actress
- Kylie Bunburyb. 1989CACanadian actress
- Kylie Palmerb. 1990AUAustralian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Kylie Masseb. 1996CACanadian swimmer
- Kylie Jennerb. 1997USAmerican media personality
- Kylie Pageb. 1997USAmerican pornographic actress (1997–2025)
- Kylie Rocketb. 2001USAmerican pornographic actress
- Kylie Rogersb. 2004USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 67 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103K | #540 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.5K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.3K | #807 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 980 | #1,072 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 539 | #3,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 406 | #540 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 194 | #5,356 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 183 | #9,656 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 142 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 126 | #5,815 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 110 | #7,245 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 102 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 704 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kylie?
- We estimate roughly 124 thousand people bear Kylie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kylie have the most bearers?
- Kylie is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled kylie.
- How common is Kylie compared with other names?
- In Australia, Kylie is the 102nd most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
- Is Kylie a male or female name?
- Kylie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kylie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Of Australian origin, said to represent an Aboriginal term for the boomerang.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kylie” — the 102nd most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.