Kayleen
Kayleen was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,524 among girls’ names; 7,995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,640 Americans named Kayleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kayleen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kayleen is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kayleen?
#2,524 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayleen fell from #1,343 in 2015 to #2,524 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 99.2 to 43.6 per million.
284 babies in 2010, the peak
Kayleen peaked in 2010, when 284 girls were given it, #916 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,524 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,575 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,561 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,529 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 143 | #1,489 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,775 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 140 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,579 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 177 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 216 | #1,153 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 228 | #1,084 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 239 | #1,053 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 230 | #1,073 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 284 | #916 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 271 | #980 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 227 | #1,134 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 215 | #1,186 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 214 | #1,147 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 201 | #1,155 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 191 | #1,176 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 207 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,259 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,370 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,319 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,436 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,265 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,234 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,362 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,175 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 158 | #1,133 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 163 | #1,104 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,384 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 139 | #1,226 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 101 | #1,522 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,357 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,366 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,772 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,737 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,844 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,305 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,358 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,029 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,713 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,276 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,206 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,655 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,565 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,253 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,637 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,682 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,586 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,481 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,678 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,812 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,376 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,767 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,857 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,083 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayleen, and how old are they?
7,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 7,995 Americans ever recorded as Kayleen. The median Kayleen alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 6,263 people named Kayleen (6,240 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 66 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 583 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 482 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,850 |
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 Kayleen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,702 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,754 | 1.0× |
Where Kayleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayleen is most over-represented in California: since 1934 it was given 1.5 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 Kayleen 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 67,883 babies since 1880, Kayleen is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 580 babies (12%), again the fifth 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 Kayleen
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 Kayleen and names like it
- Compare Kayleen and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKayleen peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Kayleen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayleen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.