Kaylen — #3393 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kaylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,087 babies named Kaylen between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaylen currently holds the #3393 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 425 babies received it in a single year. Kaylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,317 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaylen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,821 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kaylen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 817 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaylen in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaylen 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 7,087 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.