Kylen

Where Kylen comes from

Modern coinage, compare Kyle. Variant: Kylan.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kylen
Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #4,509 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1998
    Kylen Granson born
    American football tight end
  4. 2023
    Peak, #874
    268 babies named Kylen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Kylen Granson · American football tight end, 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.