Kaylan

Where Kaylan comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kaylan.

Kaylan through the years
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,995 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Peak, #878
    231 babies named Kaylan, the most in any year.
  3. 1998
    Kaylan Marckese born
    American soccer player
  4. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,855.
  5. 2006
    Kaylan Bigun‎ born
    American tennis player
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Kaylan Marckese · American soccer player, born 1998
  • Kaylan Bigun‎ · American tennis player, born 2006
  • Kaylan Williams · American soccer player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.