Kaylene

Where Kaylene comes from

The dictionaries list Kaylene as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #2,940 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #959
    197 babies named Kaylene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,656.
  4. 1999
    Kaylene Corbett born
    South African swimmer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Kaylene Corbett · South African swimmer, born 1999

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.