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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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.
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 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 10,558 of them was named Kaylen, which outranked 93.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,154Keisha169
- #1,154Kristian169
- #1,154Winter169
- #1,159Kaylen168
- #1,159Amya168
- #1,159Anabel168
- #1,159Danica168
- #1,164Baylie167
- #1,164Rosario167
- #1,164Shay167
Tied with 4 names at #1,159; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 73,852 of them was named Kaylen, which outranked 73.3% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,031Von27
- #3,031Zachry27
- #3,031Zuri27
- #3,103Kaylen26
- #3,103Abdirahman26
- #3,103Abiel26
- #3,103Adil26
- #3,182Aakash25
- #3,182Abdullahi25
- #3,182Adiel25
Tied with 78 names at #3,103; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.