Kylen
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #878 for boys in 2025, 272 births
Given to boys 88.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 268 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,804since 1981
Kylen 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 | #5,410 | 23 | #878 | 272 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #922 | 251 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #874 | 268 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #897 | 260 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #924 | 245 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #896 | 252 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #917 | 239 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #992 | 209 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #977 | 211 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | #1,037 | 191 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #987 | 209 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #986 | 211 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,119 | 162 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #1,004 | 198 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #1,235 | 141 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | #1,168 | 157 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,173 | 154 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #1,361 | 125 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | #1,457 | 110 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 | #1,417 | 110 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #1,497 | 96 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #1,435 | 98 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #1,466 | 89 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | #1,694 | 69 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #1,800 | 62 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #1,957 | 49 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
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| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kylen! It came in at #4,509, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kylen is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#249 · 1 in 1,026
- Louisiana#386 · 1 in 1,835
- Alabama#436 · 1 in 2,287
- South Carolina#478 · 1 in 2,625
- Arkansas#541 · 1 in 2,743
Best ever in a state: #192 in Mississippi, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #249 | 13 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Louisiana | #386 | 13 | 1 in 1,835 |
| Alabama | #436 | 10 | 1 in 2,287 |
| South Carolina | #478 | 8 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Arkansas | #541 | 5 | 1 in 2,743 |
| Tennessee | #585 | 10 | 1 in 3,627 |
| Ohio | #593 | 15 | 1 in 3,891 |
| Missouri | #622 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Kentucky | #633 | 5 | 1 in 4,327 |
| Oklahoma | #679 | 5 | 1 in 3,868 |
| North Carolina | #683 | 11 | 1 in 4,666 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,369 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Texas | #952 | 21 | 1 in 8,389 |
| Washington | #958 | 5 | 1 in 7,111 |
| Michigan | #970 | 6 | 1 in 7,737 |
| Florida | #1,242 | 8 | 1 in 12,084 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| California | #1,877 | 8 | 1 in 26,964 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Kylen
- 44 spots since 2024 (#922 → #878)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#896 → #878)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#987 → #878)
- Biggest jump: 133 spots in 2014 (#1,119 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2016 (#987 → #1,037)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2023 at #874 (268 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,280 boys born in 2025 were named Kylen (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #874 in 2023, was only 1 in 6,383 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.1% of all boys named Kylen (1,928) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1989, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 72 | #2,682 (1988) | #4,980 |
| 1990s | 287 | #1,903 (1999) | #2,867 |
| 2000s | 969 | #1,173 (2009) | #1,518 |
| 2010s | 1,928 | #917 (2019) | #1,042 |
| 2020s | 1,548 | #874 (2023) | #899 |
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.
Kylen in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 101,557 of them was named Kylen, which outranked 63.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,531Zeva18
- #6,531Ziggy18
- #6,531Zuzu18
- #6,808Kylen17
- #6,808Aariel17
- #6,808Abbigale17
- #6,808Addi17
- #7,092Aanika16
- #7,092Abra16
- #7,092Abrie16
Tied with 283 names at #6,808; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,772 of them was named Kylen, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).