Kailen
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Given to boys 56.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 41 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 945since 1983
Kailen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | — | #3,021 | 40 | |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #2,847 | 41 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #3,946 | 34 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #3,022 | 30 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1983
The first year at least five boys were named Kailen! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kailen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kailen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kailen
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,235 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #4,396)
- 1,260 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #4,396)
- 11 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #4,396)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2014 at #2,847 (41 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 39,781
- Highest: 1 in 39,781 boys born in 2023 were named Kailen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,847 in 2014, was only 1 in 46,851 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 31.2% of all boys named Kailen (295) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2011
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 19 | #4,573 (1987) | #5,778 |
| 1990s | 134 | #2,939 (1999) | #4,648 |
| 2000s | 290 | #3,022 (2002) | #3,378 |
| 2010s | 295 | #2,847 (2014) | #3,670 |
| 2020s | 207 | #2,895 (2023) | #3,434 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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