Kylen
Kylen was given to 272 boys in 2025, #879 among boys’ names; 5,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,360 Americans named Kylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kylen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kylen is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern coinage, compare Kyle. Variant: Kylan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kylen?
#879 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylen rose from #988 in 2015 to #879 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.16 per 1,000.
295 babies in 2025, the peak
Kylen peaked in 2025, when 295 babies were given it (272 boys, #879 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 251 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,489 | 272 | #879 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,289 | 251 | #925 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,808 | 268 | #877 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,807 | 260 | #899 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,742 | 245 | #926 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,789 | 252 | #897 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,958 | 239 | #918 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,916 | 209 | #993 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,962 | 211 | #978 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,685 | 191 | #1,039 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,599 | 209 | #988 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,870 | 211 | #988 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,601 | 162 | #1,123 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,641 | 198 | #1,005 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,284 | 141 | #1,239 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,181 | 157 | #1,170 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,702 | 154 | #1,178 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,589 | 125 | #1,372 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,808 | 110 | #1,461 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,033 | 110 | #1,421 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,335 | 96 | #1,500 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,950 | 98 | #1,435 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,267 | 89 | #1,470 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,783 | 69 | #1,700 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,480 | 62 | #1,803 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,308 | 56 | #1,884 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,049 | 51 | #1,916 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,733 | 49 | #1,972 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,340 | 32 | #2,523 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,514 | 30 | #2,569 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,295 | 26 | #2,806 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,067 | 30 | #2,535 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,796 | 25 | #2,826 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,781 | 16 | #3,844 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,980 | 14 | #4,130 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,105 | 14 | #4,094 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,424 | 10 | #5,016 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,813 | 21 | #2,728 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,273 | 5 | #7,620 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,182 | 7 | #5,684 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,529 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,890 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,228 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 8 | #4,760 |
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 Kylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,424 Americans recorded as Kylen, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 girls and 272 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylen, and how old are they?
5,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,424 Americans ever recorded as Kylen. The median Kylen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,195 people named Kylen (492 women and girls, 2,703 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 322 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,190 |
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 Kylen born?
The states with the most babies named Kylen are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #966 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 18 | #830 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 17 | #610 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #609 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | #590 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 12 | #414 | 2.7× |
| South Carolina | 12 | #428 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #838 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 10 | #709 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #753 | 1.8× |
Where Kylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylen is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1981 it was given 3.5 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 Kylen 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 27,499 babies since 1880, Kylen is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 295 of their 1,547 babies (19%), the third 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 Kylen
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 Kylen and names like it
- Compare Kylen and KylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKylen peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylen since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kylen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.