Kaylan
Kaylan is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,098 among girls’ names and #5,309 among boys’, #7,794 among all names counting both); 5,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,110 Americans named Kaylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylan?
#8,098 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylan fell from #3,454 in 2015 to #8,098 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 8.1 per million.
256 babies in 1997, the peak
Kaylan peaked in 1997, when 256 babies were given it (231 girls, #878 among girls’ names). The 31 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,098 | 18 | #5,309 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,523 | 23 | #4,498 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,266 | 20 | #4,976 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,340 | 18 | #5,320 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,450 | 12 | #6,899 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,749 | 8 | #9,144 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,101 | 17 | #5,450 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,384 | 16 | #5,659 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,869 | 17 | #5,406 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,039 | 21 | #4,695 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,454 | 19 | #4,969 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,055 | 17 | #5,372 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,744 | 15 | #5,799 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,220 | 16 | #5,597 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,062 | 13 | #6,415 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,804 | 26 | #3,951 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,816 | 30 | #3,598 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,939 | 17 | #5,366 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,863 | 19 | #4,900 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,527 | 15 | #5,668 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,561 | 15 | #5,435 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,864 | 11 | #6,765 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,419 | 28 | #3,322 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,319 | 26 | #3,405 |
| 2001 | 167 | #1,215 | 18 | #4,377 |
| 2000 | 215 | #988 | 25 | #3,365 |
| 1999 | 193 | #1,051 | 18 | #4,081 |
| 1998 | 211 | #967 | 21 | #3,547 |
| 1997 | 231 | #878 | 25 | #3,025 |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,088 | 28 | #2,712 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,078 | 36 | #2,231 |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,033 | 31 | #2,467 |
| 1993 | 156 | #1,136 | 25 | #2,823 |
| 1992 | 149 | #1,177 | 24 | #2,877 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,564 | 15 | #3,914 |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,282 | 14 | #4,080 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,342 | 19 | #3,152 |
| 1988 | 104 | #1,368 | 17 | #3,144 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,845 | 11 | #4,102 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,791 | 9 | #4,662 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,512 | 11 | #3,919 |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,437 | 5 | #6,842 |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,288 | 7 | #5,203 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,474 | 5 | #6,869 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,812 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,217 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,503 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,609 | under 5 |
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 Kaylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,203 Americans recorded as Kaylan, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylan, and how old are they?
5,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,203 Americans ever recorded as Kaylan. The median Kaylan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 4,620 people named Kaylan (3,965 women and girls, 655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,945 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,910 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 572 |
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).
Where are babies named Kaylan born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylan are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 446 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 294 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 240 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 231 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 180 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 169 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 142 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 133 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 90 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 86 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Kaylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylan is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1970 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaylan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 95,983 babies since 1880, Kaylan is the eighth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 784 babies (4.0%), again the eighth 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 Kaylan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kayle | 4,654 |
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 Kaylan and names like it
- Compare Kaylan and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaylan peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylan since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kaylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.