Kaylene
Kaylene was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,946 among girls’ names; 5,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,750 Americans named Kaylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 19 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaylene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaylene is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaylene?
#3,946 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylene fell from #2,329 in 2015 to #3,946 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 44.8 to 23.0 per million.
197 babies in 1993, the peak
Kaylene peaked in 1993, when 197 girls were given it, #959 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,946 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,076 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,685 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,679 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,519 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,113 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,620 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,183 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,760 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,785 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 80 | #2,329 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,382 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,025 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,415 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,401 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,267 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,009 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,115 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,413 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,238 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,130 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,933 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,049 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,737 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,839 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,745 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,063 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,755 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,772 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,659 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,455 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,218 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 197 | #959 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,665 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,509 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,469 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,934 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,543 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,320 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,098 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,537 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,134 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,429 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,151 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,154 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,785 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,880 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,988 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,770 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,282 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,487 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,892 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,234 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,084 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,049 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylene, and how old are they?
4,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,070 Americans ever recorded as Kaylene. The median Kaylene alive today is 32 years old; half are between 19 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,312 people named Kaylene (4,305 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,595 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 63 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 575 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 602 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 708 |
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 Kaylene born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,509 | 0.9× |
Where Kaylene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylene is most over-represented in Utah: since 1937 it was given 3.1 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 Kaylene 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 23,230 babies since 1880, Kaylene is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 1,876 babies (2.0%), 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 Kaylene
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 Kaylene and names like it
- Compare Kaylene and KaylaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaylene peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylene since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kaylene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.