Caylen
Caylen is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,534 among girls’ names and #10,908 among boys’, #14,463 among all names counting both); 1,032 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Caylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caylen?
#13,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Caylen fell from #6,776 in 2015 to #13,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 3.7 per million.
60 babies in 2010, the peak
Caylen peaked in 2010, when 60 babies were given it (41 girls, #3,759 among girls’ names). The 12 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,534 | 6 | #10,908 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,436 | 10 | #7,866 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,099 | 7 | #9,919 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,829 | 5 | #12,677 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,086 | 8 | #8,961 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,498 | 8 | #8,877 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,088 | 16 | #5,599 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,574 | 10 | #7,715 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,443 | 9 | #8,272 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,831 | 12 | #6,791 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,776 | 14 | #6,046 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,188 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,553 | 21 | #4,495 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,938 | 15 | #5,754 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,382 | 9 | #8,176 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,759 | 19 | #4,869 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,808 | 17 | #5,360 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,782 | 19 | #4,921 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,713 | 16 | #5,464 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,750 | 11 | #6,981 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,582 | 9 | #7,726 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,790 | 8 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,647 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,711 | 11 | #6,141 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,811 | 8 | #7,631 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,118 | 5 | #10,606 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,948 | 5 | #10,134 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,626 | 12 | #5,189 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,455 | 9 | #6,161 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,105 | 9 | #6,051 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,185 | 7 | #7,094 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,685 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,093 | 7 | #6,917 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,846 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,030 | 10 | #5,142 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,393 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,833 | 7 | #6,307 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,507 | 5 | #7,442 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,458 | 8 | #5,036 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,860 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,674 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,508 |
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 Caylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,032 Americans recorded as Caylen, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caylen, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,032 Americans ever recorded as Caylen. The median Caylen alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 853 people named Caylen (575 women and girls, 278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 923 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 168 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 526 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 325 |
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).
How common is the spelling Caylen?
Caylen is a less common spelling of Kaylen: SSA has recorded 1,032 Caylen and 8,504 Kaylen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,056 babies since 1880, Caylen is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 465 babies (2.6%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Caylen
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 Caylen and names like it
- Compare Caylen and KaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaylen peaked in 2010.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Caylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.