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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 223,897 of them was named Kylen, which outranked 38.1% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,153Zedrick9
- #4,153Zenas9
- #4,153Zvi9
- #4,509Kylen8
- #4,509Abdallah8
- #4,509Abrahm8
- #4,509Adom8
- #4,961Abdel7
- #4,961Abdiel7
- #4,961Abelino7
Tied with 451 names at #4,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.