Kylie (name)

Kylie
Pronunciation	/ˈkаɪliː/ /'Kie-LEE:/
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Noongar, Gaelic
Origin
Meaning	boomerang or graceful/beautiful
Region of origin	Australia, Ireland, Scotland
Other names
Related names	Kyle, Kyla, Kylee, Kiley, Kayleigh, Kaylee, Kayla

Kylie (also spelled Kyly, Kiley, Kilee, or Kylee^[1]) is a feminine given name. This name could derive from two different roots:

From the Noongar, an Indigenous Australian people, from the word "Kiley", meaning "curved, returning stick, boomerang".
From the Irish surname "O’Kiely", which in turn derives from the Old Gaelic surname "O’Cadhla", meaning "graceful or beautiful", descendant(s) of the graceful one.

The name became popular during the late 1960s to the early 1970s and was listed in 1970 in Australia as the fifth most popular girls name.^[2] The Australian author Kylie Tennant (born 1912) may have been the modern originator of this name, she was born Kathleen Tennant, but was called Kylie in childhood.^[3] According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the publication of her third novel in 1941 "made her a household name and brought her international acclaim".^[4] "Kylie" first appeared on the list of 100 most popular female baby names in New South Wales in 1965, reaching a peak of popularity in 1972-1974 when it was the second most popular girl's name.^[5] In the US, the name was first recorded in the top 1000 female baby names in 1978, but did not reach the top 100 until 2001.^[6]

People

Musicians and hosts

Kylie Auldist, Australian singer
Kylie Minogue (born 1968), Australian singer and actress
Kylie Padilla (born 1993) Filipino singer and actress
Kylie Price (born 1993), New Zealander singer-songwriter
Kylie Rae Harris (1989–2019), American country singer-songwriter
Kylie Speer, Australian television host

Athletes (association football)

Kylie Bivens (born 1978), American former soccer player
Kylie Cockburn (born 1988), Scottish football match official
Kylie Fitts (born 1994), American football linebacker
Kylie Louw (born 1989), South African footballer
Kylie McCarthy (born 1987), English-born Welsh footballer
Kylie Nolan (born 1998), Welsh footballer
Kylie Strom (born 1992), American soccer player

Athletes (other sports)

Kylie Cronk (born 1984), Australian softball player
Kylie Dickson (born 1999), American-born Belarusian artistic gymnast
Kylie Dowling (born 1974), Australian Polocrosse rider
Kylie Duarte (born 1993), American former pair skater
Kylie Foy (born 1971), New Zealander former field hockey striker
Kylie Gauci (born 1985), Australian wheelchair basketball player
Kylie Gill (born 1974), Australian-born competitive skier from New Zealand
Kylie Grimes (born 1987), British para-athlete
Kylie Halliday (born c. 1981), Australian sports aerobics athlete
Kylie Hanigan (born 1971), Australian sprinter
Kylie Henry (born 1986), Scottish golfer
Kylie Hilder (born 1976), Australian former rugby league footballer
Kylie Hutson (born 1987), American track and field athlete
Kylie Jameson (born 1976), New Zealand sailor
Kylie Jones, British ballroom dancer
Kylie Ledbrook (born 1986), Australian soccer player
Kylie Leuluai (born 1978), New Zealand former rugby player
Kylie Lindsay (born 1983), squash player who represents New Zealand
Kylie Masse (born 1996), Canadian swimmer
Kylie Palmer (born 1990), Australian swimmer
Kylie Rae (born 1992), retired American wrestler
Kylie Reed (born 1974), Australian former bobsledder and track and field athlete
Kylie Risk (born 1973), Australian long-distance runner
Kylie Robilliard (born 1988), athlete from Guernsey
Kylie Shadbolt (born 1972), Australian artistic gymnast
Kylie Shea (born 1986), American ballet dancer
Kylie Stone (born 1987), Canadian female artistic gymnast
Kylie Summers (born 2005), dancer
Kylie Waterreus (born 1998), Dutch cyclist
Kylie Wheeler (born 1980), Australian retired heptathlete
Kylie Whitehead (born 1995), Australian lawn bowler

Actresses

Kylie Babbington (born 1987), British actress
Kylie Belling, Australian actress
Kylie Bunbury (born 1989), Canadian-American actress
Kylie Farmer, Aboriginal Australian actress
Kylie Foster (born 1961), Australian actress
Kylie Padilla (born 1993), Filipino-Australian actress, model, and recording artist
Kylie Rogers (born 2004), American child actress
Kylie Travis (born 1970), Australian actress
Kylie Tyndall (born 1992), American identical twin actresses
Kylie Verzosa (born 1992), Filipino actress
Kylie Watson (born 1978), Australian actress, interior designer, and model

Other

Kylie Adams, American author
Kylie Bax (born 1975), New Zealander fashion model
Kylie Bisutti (born 1990), American author
Kylie Brant, American author
Kylie Chan, Australian author
Kylie Gillies (born 1967), Australian television presenter
Kylie Hercules (born 1989), Saint Helenian politician
Kylie InGold (born 1962), Australian Artist of the Fairy Fantasy Genre
Kylie Ireland (born 1970), American actress best known for her work in pornographic films
Kylie Jenner (born 1997), American reality TV personality
Kylie Kofoed (born 1991), Miss Idaho in 2010
Kylie Kwong (born 1969), Australian television chef, author, television presenter and restaurateur
Kylie Maybury (1978–1984), Australian murder victim
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Australian-British academic and expert on Islamic studies
Kylie Morris, Australian newsreader in the UK
Kylie Oversen (born 1989), American politician
Kylie Pentelow (born 1979), English journalist and TV news presenter
Kylie Percival, Australian archivist
Kylie Sturgess, Australian author and former President of the Atheist Foundation of Australia
Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), Australian novelist, playwright, writer, critic, biographer, and historian
Kylie Watson (British Army soldier), British Army medic
Kylie Williams (born 1983), American beauty queen

Fictional characters

Kylie Galen, the protagonist of the novel series Shadow Falls
Kylie Griffin, a character in the Ghostbusters franchise
Kylie Mole, a Comedy Company schoolgirl character
Kylie Platt, a character on the British television series Coronation Street
Kylie the Carnival Fairy, a character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Kylie Smiley, a minor character in the Nelvana cartoon 6teen

References

^ Ramson, W. M. (2004). Lexical Images: The Story of the Australian National Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-551577-3.
^ "1970 Top 100 Baby Names".
^ "I'm going to jail... I'm going tonight". The Australian Women's Weekly. 35 (22). Australia. 25 October 1967. p. 4. Retrieved 12 July 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Grant, Jane. Tennant, Kathleen (Kylie) (1912–1988). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
^ NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (2015-01-23). "Facts & Statistics". Retrieved 12 July 2018.
^ Social Security Administration. "Popular Baby Names". Retrieved 12 July 2018.

[1] Ramson, W. M. (2004). Lexical Images: The Story of the Australian National Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-551577-3.

[2] "1970 Top 100 Baby Names".

[3] "I'm going to jail... I'm going tonight". The Australian Women's Weekly. 35 (22). Australia. 25 October 1967. p. 4. Retrieved 12 July 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] Grant, Jane. Tennant, Kathleen (Kylie) (1912–1988). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2018.

[5] NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (2015-01-23). "Facts & Statistics". Retrieved 12 July 2018.

[6] Social Security Administration. "Popular Baby Names". Retrieved 12 July 2018.

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