Kailen — #3179 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kailen

The Social Security Administration has registered 922 babies named Kailen between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kailen currently holds the #3179 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 43 babies received it in a single year. Kailen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 728 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kailen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 295 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kailen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kailen in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kailen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 922 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.