Kylie
Meaning of Kylie
Kylie—pronounced KY-lee—sprang from the Australian Noongar word for “boomerang,” a promise that every ounce of love you send her way will circle right back, yet she also borrows a bit of Celtic sparkle from the Gaelic Kyle, meaning “narrow strait,” proving she can surf two cultures as easily as a salsa dancer switches steps. Her numbers in the U.S. shot up like fireworks in July, peaking in the early 2000s and still holding a comfy spot in the Top 200, so she’s familiar without being the fifth Kylie on the playground. Pop queen Kylie Minogue wrapped the name in glitter, while beauty-boss Kylie Jenner dipped it in lip-gloss glamour, giving it both disco-ball dazzle and entrepreneurial edge. Say it aloud and it zips off the tongue like a mariachi riff, shortening sweetly to Kai or Ky and pairing beautifully with Spanish middles—think Kylie Isabel or Kylie Marisol—for a combo as smooth as dulce de leche on warm churros. All told, Kylie is a linguistic boomerang: Outback bold, Celtic cool, and modern-pop shiny, ready to gift your niña a name that never stops coming back with smiles.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as KY-lee (/ˈkaɪli/)
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Notable People Named Kylie
| Kylie Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress, a pop and style icon, Grammy and Brit winner, the highest-selling Australian female artist with over 80 million records sold, and a 2024 Time 100 honoree. |
| Kylie Jenner is an American media personality and businesswoman who starred in Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Kardashians, founded Kylie Cosmetics, and is the fifth most followed person on Instagram. |
| Kylie Jacqueline Masse is a Canadian backstroke specialist with five Olympic medals and titles at the World Aquatics Championships, Commonwealth Games, and Pan Pacific Championships. |
| Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian and British scholar of Middle Eastern politics, a former University of Melbourne lecturer whose research focused on Bahrain after the Arab Spring. |
| Kylie Ohlmiller is an American pro lacrosse player for the New York Charging who set NCAA Division I records at Stony Brook with 498 career points and 246 assists. |
| Kylie Sonique Love is an American entertainer who rose to fame on RuPaul's Drag Race, became the first person on reality TV to come out as transgender, and later won All Stars 6 in 2021 as the first trans woman to win an American Drag Race series. |
| Kylie Ireland is an American adult film actress, director, producer, publicist, and satellite radio host inducted into the AVN, XRCO, and NightMoves Halls of Fame. |
| Kylie Fausto Verzosa is a Filipina actress, model, presenter, and beauty queen who won Binibining Pilipinas International 2016 and Miss International 2016, becoming the sixth Filipina Miss International. |
| Kylie Bisutti is an American author and former model who won the 2009 Victorias Secret Model Search, then left lingerie modeling for her Christian convictions, wrote the 2013 memoir Im No Angel, and cofounded a Christian clothing line called God Inspired Fashion. |
| Kylie Rae Harris was an American singer and songwriter born in Wylie, Texas. |
| Kylie Padilla - Kylie Nicole Sicangco Padilla is a Filipino actress, singer, and model, daughter of Robin Padilla and Liezl Sicangco, and an exclusive GMA Network artist. |
| Kylie Bunbury is a Canadian American actress. |
| Kylie Jayne Palmer is an Australian distance freestyle swimmer and a recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia. |
| Kylie Williams, a beauty queen from Jasper, Florida, competed in Miss America. |
| Kylie Ledbrook is an Australian soccer player for Western Sydney Wanderers in the W League. |
