Kylen — #922 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,531 babies named Kylen between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kylen currently holds the #922 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 267 babies received it in a single year. Kylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 597 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kylen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,928 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kylen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 324 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Kylen in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kylen 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 4,531 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.