Kylene
Kylene was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,693 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Kylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 29 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,583, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
205 babies in 1979, the peak
Kylene peaked in 1979, when 205 girls were given it, #779 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,583 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,584 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,734 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,768 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,034 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,198 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,655 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,843 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,304 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,824 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,997 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,814 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,541 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,261 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,045 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,264 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,034 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,223 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,465 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,473 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,184 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,917 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,332 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,437 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,854 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,535 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,485 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,465 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,725 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,182 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,203 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,720 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,410 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,441 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,334 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,874 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,653 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,002 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,758 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 149 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 205 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 88 | #1,353 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,668 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,695 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,233 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,635 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylene, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,693 Americans ever recorded as Kylene. The median Kylene alive today is 40 years old; half are between 29 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,545 people named Kylene (1,545 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,632 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 472 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 695 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 326 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
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 Kylene born?
The states with the most babies named Kylene are California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 158 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Kylene 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,808 babies since 1880, Kylene is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Kylene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kylene
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 Kylene and names like it
- Compare Kylene and KylaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKylene peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylene since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Kylene.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kylene alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.