Entry № 5660 · Noongar origin

Kylie Kylie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIE-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Noongar
Meaning
"Boomerang (Kylie Jenner, Kylie Cosmetics billionaire)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Noongar)

A name that means "boomerang (kylie jenner, kylie cosmetics billionaire)".

Kylie is from the Noongar Aboriginal word kayle ("boomerang") — the curved hunting weapon of southwest Western Australia. The name was popularized globally by Australian singer Kylie Minogue (born 1968) — whose 1988 cover of "The Loco-Motion" topped charts in 17 countries and whose 50+ #1 singles across multiple countries make her the highest-selling Australian artist of all time. Kylie Bunbury (Big Sky), Kylie Padilla (Filipino actress).

Boomerang. Kylie Minogue is Australia's #1 export; Kylie Jenner was Forbes's youngest self-made billionaire.

The name in its native script.

Kylie
Transliteration
Kylie
Pronunciation
/ ˈkaɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kylie stands.

Kylie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kylies before her.

Real people
Kylie Minogue
Australian singer.
born 1968
Kylie Jenner
American businesswoman.
born 1997
In fiction
Kylie
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
1970

Names connected to Kylie.

The number behind Kylie.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kylie reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.