Kaylen
Kaylen is given to both girls and boys: 61 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,796 among girls’ names and #3,274 among boys’, #3,614 among all names counting both); 8,504 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,400 Americans named Kaylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylen?
#2,796 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylen fell from #1,194 in 2015 to #2,796 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.04 per 1,000.
489 babies in 2009, the peak
Kaylen peaked in 2009, when 489 babies were given it (425 girls, #688 among girls’ names). The 97 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,796 | 36 | #3,274 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,358 | 29 | #3,848 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,347 | 56 | #2,426 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,130 | 50 | #2,657 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,165 | 46 | #2,754 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,875 | 44 | #2,784 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,906 | 40 | #3,024 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,636 | 31 | #3,571 |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,521 | 38 | #3,101 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,443 | 36 | #3,190 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 210 | #1,194 | 44 | #2,740 |
| 2014 | 239 | #1,073 | 52 | #2,444 |
| 2013 | 269 | #939 | 54 | #2,347 |
| 2012 | 273 | #937 | 52 | #2,431 |
| 2011 | 310 | #850 | 49 | #2,527 |
| 2010 | 343 | #798 | 51 | #2,450 |
| 2009 | 425 | #688 | 64 | #2,129 |
| 2008 | 407 | #733 | 50 | #2,529 |
| 2007 | 335 | #848 | 52 | #2,463 |
| 2006 | 306 | #871 | 30 | #3,479 |
| 2005 | 310 | #827 | 37 | #2,869 |
| 2004 | 235 | #1,005 | 33 | #3,045 |
| 2003 | 233 | #994 | 29 | #3,235 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,080 | 34 | #2,788 |
| 2001 | 189 | #1,119 | 22 | #3,784 |
| 2000 | 184 | #1,108 | 25 | #3,366 |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,160 | 26 | #3,147 |
| 1998 | 205 | #986 | 27 | #2,974 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,206 | 26 | #2,938 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,301 | 21 | #3,336 |
| 1995 | 126 | #1,317 | 28 | #2,649 |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,296 | 25 | #2,895 |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,188 | 21 | #3,194 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,650 | 12 | #4,704 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,731 | 17 | #3,538 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,689 | 21 | #3,005 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,855 | 13 | #4,159 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,895 | 12 | #4,049 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,289 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,694 | 8 | #5,103 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,892 | 7 | #5,454 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,595 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,188 | 6 | #5,872 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,060 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,087 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,140 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,458 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,462 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,978 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,975 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,582 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,632 | 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 Kaylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,504 Americans recorded as Kaylen, 84% are girls and 16% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylen, and how old are they?
8,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,504 Americans ever recorded as Kaylen. The median Kaylen alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 7,086 people named Kaylen (6,145 women and girls, 941 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,270 |
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 Kaylen born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylen are Texas, California and Florida, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #3,116 | 1.0× |
| California | 10 | #2,023 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,324 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,255 | 0.4× |
Where Kaylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylen is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1949 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 Kaylen 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 98,573 babies since 1880, Kaylen is the sixth most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 772 babies (13%), the fifth 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 Kaylen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Karrington | 1,734 |
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 Kaylen and names like it
- Compare Kaylen and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaylen peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kaylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.