Girls' name · since 2013
Heylen
Heylen has 49 recorded births since 2013 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #35,226 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,447 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 49
- born since 2013
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Heylen is the #14447 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 49 recorded since 2013.
Heylen has 49 recorded births among girls since 2013, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14447 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2013 to 2025.
- #35,226 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,447 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 49 born since 2013
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Heylen ranks #35,226 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,447 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 49 born since 2013, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,226 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,447 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 49
- born since 2013
- 2020s
- peak decade
Heylen's 49 recorded births place it above 51.11% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Heylen compares
49 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Heylen's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Heylen | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 49 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Heylen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Heylen's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 67% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 33%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2013, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Heylen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Heylen by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (33 births, 67% of the file).
2020s was Heylen's strongest decade.
33 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Heylen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
16 births
- 2020s
2020s
33 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 33 births (67% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2013–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Heylen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.