Baylen
Baylen is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 67 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,134 among girls’ names and #2,152 among boys’, #3,162 among all names counting both); 1,662 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Baylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Baylen?
#2,152 among boys’ names, 2025
Baylen rose from #2,772 in 2015 to #2,152 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 22.4 to 39.2 per million.
118 babies in 2025, the peak
Baylen peaked in 2025, when 118 babies were given it (67 boys, #2,152 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 97 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,134 | 67 | #2,152 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,650 | 97 | #1,710 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,019 | 76 | #1,999 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,614 | 61 | #2,327 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,409 | 31 | #3,587 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,479 | 40 | #2,932 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,211 | 37 | #3,144 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,245 | 40 | #2,951 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,822 | 48 | #2,601 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,639 | 49 | #2,557 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,255 | 43 | #2,772 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,626 | 61 | #2,206 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,435 | 67 | #2,024 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,145 | 72 | #1,960 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,820 | 71 | #1,948 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,443 | 83 | #1,779 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,607 | 33 | #3,340 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,934 | 23 | #4,275 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,770 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 40 | #2,837 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 25 | #3,720 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,947 | 22 | #4,015 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 15 | #5,057 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 21 | #3,915 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 17 | #4,495 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 20 | #3,924 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 22 | #3,488 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 20 | #3,600 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,266 | 29 | #2,679 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,772 | 21 | #3,301 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 18 | #3,561 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 13 | #4,558 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,684 | 12 | #4,720 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 19 | #3,340 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,349 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,408 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 10 | #4,839 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,176 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 9 | #4,595 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,383 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #4,976 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Baylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,662 Americans recorded as Baylen, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baylen, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,662 Americans ever recorded as Baylen. The median Baylen alive today is 13 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,168 people named Baylen (188 women and girls, 980 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 139 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 599 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 899 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,319 babies since 1880, Baylen is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 178 babies (66%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baylen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baylen and names like it
- Compare Baylen and BaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaylen peaked in 2025.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Baylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.