Kaylen

#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to girls 84.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
2009 · 425 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,150
since 1949

Kaylen over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #687, 2009peak #2,119, 2009girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,77861#3,24036
2024#3,33547#3,79329
2023#2,33678#2,41656
2022#2,12390#2,64850
2021#2,15487#2,73246
2020#1,872103#2,75944
2019#1,898105#2,99340
2018#1,633130#3,52431
2017#1,515146#3,07138
2016#1,439160#3,16136
2015#1,193210#2,72244
2014#1,072239#2,42952
2013#938269#2,33654
2012#936273#2,41552
2011#848310#2,50449
2010#797343#2,42951
2009#687425#2,11964
2008#732407#2,51550
2007#847335#2,44252
2006#869306#3,45130
2005#826310#2,84637
2004#1,003235#3,01433
2003#990233#3,18629
2002#1,077197#2,75534
2001#1,117189#3,72122
2000#1,108184#3,29925
1999#1,159168#3,10326
1998#986205#2,92627
1997#1,206149#2,90326
1996#1,296133#3,29321
1995#1,318126#2,62628
1994#1,293131#2,84725
1993#1,185146#3,14121
1992#1,64392#4,56412
1991#1,72784#3,46217
1990#1,68887#2,95221
1989#1,85171#4,01713
1988#1,89165#3,91512
1987#2,27647—
1986#2,68236#4,8538
1985#2,86032#5,1477
1984#4,47816—
1983#4,10918#5,4846
1982#4,94514—
1981#4,96314—
1980#10,3925—
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five girls were named Kaylen! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Kaylen is popular in 1949

No state had 5 or more girls named Kaylen in 1949, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kaylen
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 557 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #2,778)
  • 906 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #2,778)
  • 1,585 spots since 2015 (#1,193 → #2,778)
  • Biggest jump: 220 spots in 1998 (#1,206 → #986)
  • Biggest drop: 173 spots in 1999 (#986 → #1,159)
Rise & fade · girls
60 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 2009 at #687 (425 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 11 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2005–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,323
  • Highest: 1 in 4,323 girls born in 2009 were named Kaylen (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Kaylen (2,821) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#5,244 (1949)#5,244
1950s0——
1960s12#5,296 (1963)#5,918
1970s22#5,776 (1974)#7,274
1980s318#1,851 (1989)#4,045
1990s1,321#986 (1998)#1,350
2000s2,821#687 (2009)#926
2010s2,185#797 (2010)#1,227
2020s466#1,872 (2020)#2,433

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kaylen in 1949

girls
#5,244
5 births · 1 in 342,175 girls

Top girls' names in 1949

  1. #1Linda91,015
  2. #2Mary66,874
  3. #3Patricia46,324
  4. #4Barbara42,600
  5. #5Susan37,709
  6. #6Sandra30,643
  7. #7Nancy29,249
  8. #8Carol26,780
  9. #9Kathleen26,357
  10. #10Sharon25,713
  11. #5,244Kaylen5
More about 1949

girls

1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 342,175 of them was named Kaylen, which outranked 13.6% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kaylen
  1. #4,673Youlanda6
  2. #4,673Yvonia6
  3. #4,673Zenola6
  4. #5,244Kaylen5
  5. #5,244Abbe5
  6. #5,244Adine5
  7. #5,244Adora5

Tied with 822 names at #5,244; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. ↑ 937Sharman#1,708 → #771
  2. ↑ 665Roseanna#1,422 → #757
  3. ↑ 483Shauna#1,173 → #690
  4. ↑ 293Jacalyn#1,116 → #823
  5. ↑ 267Sanjuana#1,185 → #918
Fallers
  1. ↓ 339Sandie#939 → #1,278
  2. ↓ 296Syble#955 → #1,251
  3. ↓ 272Shirleen#964 → #1,236
  4. ↓ 266Ginny#734 → #1,000
  5. ↓ 260Dina#861 → #1,121

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1949 →