A name born on a movie screen in 2015, Kylo leapt into American nurseries the instant Adam Driver donned the mask of Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens, climbing from nonexistent to the top 1000 within a year. The name is an invented one, phonetically cousin to Milo and Kylie, with no older etymology to lean on, which is part of its appeal. Two crisp syllables, the hard K opening and the long O resolving. Kylo now holds a confident mid-300s rank and reads as the quintessential choice for parents who grew up with Star Wars and want a name with a little interstellar swagger.
Popularity
1880 to today
US SSA data. Lower rank number means more popular. A flat line at the top of the chart means the name did not rank in the top 1000.
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