Kylan
Kylan was given to 507 boys in 2025, #579 among boys’ names; 11,821 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Kylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kylan is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern coinage; compare Kyle. Variant: Kylen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylan?
#579 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylan rose from #668 in 2015 to #579 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.20 to 0.30 per 1,000.
610 babies in 2022, the peak
Kylan peaked in 2022, when 610 babies were given it (576 boys, #515 among boys’ names). The 542 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 507 | #579 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 558 | #535 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 536 | #548 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 576 | #515 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 488 | #574 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 543 | #525 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 501 | #558 | 0.28 |
| 2018 | 507 | #550 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 418 | #626 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 438 | #616 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 385 | #668 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 390 | #659 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 356 | #677 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 372 | #644 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 363 | #648 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 355 | #674 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 333 | #714 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 291 | #765 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 281 | #778 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 284 | #747 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 233 | #811 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 228 | #792 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 193 | #880 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 187 | #876 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 178 | #887 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 149 | #993 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 142 | #993 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 137 | #999 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,120 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,189 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,230 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,354 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 45 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,071 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,600 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,842 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,777 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,002 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,956 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,735 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,821 Americans recorded as Kylan, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 girls and 507 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylan, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,821 Americans ever recorded as Kylan. The median Kylan alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 7,193 people named Kylan (845 women and girls, 6,348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,475 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 74 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 688 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,610 |
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 Kylan born?
The states with the most babies named Kylan are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 53 | #636 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 41 | #305 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 33 | #537 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 27 | #328 | 3.4× |
| Ohio | 27 | #403 | 1.0× |
| California | 25 | #922 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #441 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 25 | #312 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 23 | #250 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 19 | #273 | 2.5× |
Where Kylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylan is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1969 it was given 5.2 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 Kylan 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 29,827 babies since 1880, Kylan is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 542 of their 1,706 babies (32%), again the most given.
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 Kylan
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 Kylan and names like it
- Compare Kylan and KylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKylan peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kylan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kylan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.