Kylo

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 138 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
138
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#402
down from #373
UK popularity
#321
138 babies · down from #286

How Kylo has moved

US popularity rank, 2016–2025. Lower is more popular.
#297#649#1000201620212025#402

View as table
YearUS rank
2016#906
2018#866
2019#924
2020#449
2021#526
2022#436
2023#405
2024#373
2025#402

Kylo by the numbers

In 2025, 138 babies in England and Wales were named Kylo. In the US, 164 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 238 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kylo

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kylo. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kylenarrow strait or channel1,869 in the US (2017)
  • Kyrolordly and masterly; a respelling of Kyros or Cyrus97 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kalotaro plant7 in the US (2017)
  • Kylon39 in the US (2017)
  • Kylor17 in the US (2017)
  • Kyo8 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kylo

Names that are said the same way as Kylo, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Khylo3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Kylo

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