Kylon
Kylon was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,699 among boys’ names; 1,432 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Kylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kylon?
#2,699 among boys’ names, 2025
Kylon rose from #3,334 in 2015 to #2,699 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 28.1 per million.
57 babies in 2016, the peak
Kylon peaked in 2016, when 57 boys were given it, #2,321 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,699 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,776 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,866 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,696 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,273 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,823 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,380 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,494 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,043 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,321 | 30.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,334 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,780 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,349 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,746 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,570 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,452 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,471 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,859 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,326 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,431 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,507 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,362 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,139 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,391 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,656 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,708 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,493 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,654 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,534 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,457 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,503 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,016 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,934 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,723 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,951 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,686 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,483 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,972 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,580 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,113 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,832 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,525 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,971 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kylon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kylon, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,432 Americans ever recorded as Kylon. The median Kylon alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 962 people named Kylon (28 women and girls, 934 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 133 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 668 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 599 |
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 Kylon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #638 | 8.4× |
Where Kylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kylon is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1974 it was given 8.4 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 Kylon 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, Kylon is the fifth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 1,547 babies (3.1%), again the fifth 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 Kylon
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 Kylon and names like it
- Compare Kylon and KylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKylon peaked in 2016.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kylon since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Kylon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kylon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.