Kaylon
Kaylon was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,472 among boys’ names; 2,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Kaylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylon?
#4,472 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaylon fell from #3,936 in 2015 to #4,472 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 13.5 per million.
86 babies in 1997, the peak
Kaylon peaked in 1997, when 86 babies were given it (50 boys, #1,868 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 23 | #4,472 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 20 | #4,969 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 27 | #4,065 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,501 | 29 | #3,823 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,358 | 26 | #4,068 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 30 | #3,614 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,111 | 30 | #3,669 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 30 | #3,659 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,021 | 21 | #4,669 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,276 | 14 | #6,189 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,382 | 27 | #3,936 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,541 | 27 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,626 | 34 | #3,234 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,739 | 40 | #2,928 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,778 | 23 | #4,288 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,124 | 32 | #3,414 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,881 | 32 | #3,437 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,425 | 34 | #3,312 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,775 | 24 | #4,186 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,679 | 26 | #3,844 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,707 | 34 | #3,054 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,484 | 35 | #2,923 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,501 | 39 | #2,596 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,992 | 35 | #2,725 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,825 | 37 | #2,589 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,550 | 40 | #2,402 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,378 | 39 | #2,314 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,872 | 44 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,261 | 50 | #1,868 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,378 | 51 | #1,798 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,314 | 49 | #1,790 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,738 | 38 | #2,142 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,901 | 36 | #2,182 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,367 | 31 | #2,378 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,718 | 25 | #2,712 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,967 | 30 | #2,344 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,672 | 23 | #2,733 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,559 | 18 | #3,024 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,428 | 17 | #3,016 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,940 | 27 | #2,130 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,233 | 16 | #3,017 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 15 | #3,032 | |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,617 | 9 | #4,322 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,578 | 11 | #3,815 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,661 | 7 | #5,217 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,733 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 9 | #4,232 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,427 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,388 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,679 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,369 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,147 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,551 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,190 | 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 Kaylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,023 Americans recorded as Kaylon, 33% are girls and 67% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylon, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,023 Americans ever recorded as Kaylon. The median Kaylon alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,558 people named Kaylon (613 women and girls, 945 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 651 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 874 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 394 |
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 Kaylon born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylon are Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 242 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 90 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 47 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Kaylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylon is most over-represented in Texas: since 1961 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Kaylon 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 21,056 babies since 1880, Kaylon is the fourth most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 434 babies (5.3%), 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 Kaylon
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 Kaylon and names like it
- Compare Kaylon and KalenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaylon peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylon since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kaylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.