Kaylor — #5652 US unisex name
749 babies named Kaylor in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 68% of names given to girls today.
32% of everyone ever named Kaylor was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Kaylor in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaylor
The Social Security Administration has registered 749 babies named Kaylor between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaylor currently holds the #5652 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Kaylor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 488 additional births since 1989.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaylor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 236 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kaylor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaylor in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaylor 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 749 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.
Kaylor at a glance
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Current rank
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Kaylor popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1982
- Peak year (1997)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
Currently ranks #5652 among girls.
749 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 32 births in a single year.
Kaylor popularity over time — boys
488 total births recorded since 1989 (Kaylor as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Kaylor accounts for 39% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kaylor by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 236 births that decade — 32% of Kaylor's all-time total
Kaylor decade highlights
- Peak decade 236 births
- Runner-up 201 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kaylor's strongest decade
236 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Kaylor by state
Where Kaylor concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
Top 5 states
- Texas 4.0% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 4.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.