Keylen
Keylen is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,148 among girls’ names and #4,956 among boys’, #8,952 among all names counting both); 609 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keylen?
#4,956 among boys’ names, 2025
Keylen rose from #6,529 in 2015 to #4,956 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 11.7 per million.
39 babies in 2013, the peak
Keylen peaked in 2013, when 39 babies were given it (19 boys, #4,893 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,148 | 20 | #4,956 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,195 | 13 | #6,653 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,758 | 17 | #5,572 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,927 | 12 | #7,042 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,705 | 6 | #11,486 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,241 | 9 | #8,415 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,925 | 9 | #8,552 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,975 | 7 | #10,234 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,630 | 7 | #10,266 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,640 | 13 | #6,546 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,851 | 13 | #6,529 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,856 | 18 | #5,168 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,363 | 19 | #4,893 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,767 | 20 | #4,791 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,730 | 18 | #5,096 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,978 | 15 | #5,901 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,198 | 17 | #5,436 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,942 | 11 | #7,475 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,791 | 20 | #4,728 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,949 | 21 | #4,432 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,171 | 8 | #8,729 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,306 | 13 | #5,989 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,098 | 8 | #8,260 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,938 | 6 | #10,093 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,534 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #7,131 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,832 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,509 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,077 |
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 Keylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 609 Americans recorded as Keylen, 43% are girls and 57% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keylen, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Keylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Keylen (185 women and girls, 265 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 479 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,657 babies since 1880, Keylen is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 637 babies (3.9%), the seventh 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 Keylen
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 Keylen and names like it
- Compare Keylen and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeylen peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Keylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.