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
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 425 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,150since 1949
Kaylen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | #3,793 | 29 |
| 2023 | #2,336 | 78 | #2,416 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 | #2,648 | 50 |
| 2021 | #2,154 | 87 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #1,872 | 103 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 | #2,993 | 40 |
| 2018 | #1,633 | 130 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #1,515 | 146 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #1,439 | 160 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #1,193 | 210 | #2,722 | 44 |
| 2014 | #1,072 | 239 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2013 | #938 | 269 | #2,336 | 54 |
| 2012 | #936 | 273 | #2,415 | 52 |
| 2011 | #848 | 310 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #797 | 343 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #687 | 425 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #732 | 407 | #2,515 | 50 |
| 2007 | #847 | 335 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #826 | 310 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #1,003 | 235 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #1,077 | 197 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #1,117 | 189 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #1,108 | 184 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #1,159 | 168 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #986 | 205 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #1,206 | 149 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #1,296 | 133 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #1,318 | 126 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #1,293 | 131 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #1,185 | 146 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #1,643 | 92 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #1,727 | 84 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #1,688 | 87 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #1,891 | 65 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#426 · 1 in 1,585
- South Carolina#576 · 1 in 2,551
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,808
- Georgia#912 · 1 in 4,805
- New Jersey#940 · 1 in 5,225
Best ever in a state: #217 in Hawaii, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #426 | 7 | 1 in 1,585 |
| South Carolina | #576 | 7 | 1 in 2,551 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Georgia | #912 | 10 | 1 in 4,805 |
| New Jersey | #940 | 7 | 1 in 5,225 |
| North Carolina | #1,002 | 8 | 1 in 5,664 |
| Texas | #1,178 | 22 | 1 in 7,604 |
| Virginia | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 7,428 |
| Illinois | #1,307 | 7 | 1 in 8,232 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 10,371 |
| Ohio | #1,463 | 5 | 1 in 10,413 |
| New York | #1,573 | 8 | 1 in 11,230 |
| California | #2,000 | 11 | 1 in 18,520 |
| Florida | #2,072 | 5 | 1 in 17,342 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaylen
- 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)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2009 at #687 (425 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2005–2013
- 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%)
- 39.5% of all girls named Kaylen (2,821) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,296 (1963) | #5,918 |
| 1970s | 22 | #5,776 (1974) | #7,274 |
| 1980s | 318 | #1,851 (1989) | #4,045 |
| 1990s | 1,321 | #986 (1998) | #1,350 |
| 2000s | 2,821 | #687 (2009) | #926 |
| 2010s | 2,185 | #797 (2010) | #1,227 |
| 2020s | 466 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 11,075 of them was named Kaylen, which outranked 92.4% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,434Kourtney161
- #1,434Noelia161
- #1,434Nyomi161
- #1,439Kaylen160
- #1,439Aadya160
- #1,439Amethyst160
- #1,439Britney160
- #1,446Audree159
- #1,446Dina159
- #1,446Haylie159
Tied with 6 names at #1,439; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 52,715 of them was named Kaylen, which outranked 77.8% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,111Xzander37
- #3,111Zaidan37
- #3,111Zylan37
- #3,161Kaylen36
- #3,161Aahan36
- #3,161Aeden36
- #3,161Akai36
- #3,230Aaric35
- #3,230Abriel35
- #3,230Advait35
Tied with 68 names at #3,161; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.