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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
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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.
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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?
Never flipped
- 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.
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