Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,236 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,236 in 1995; #5,311 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Kaylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,311 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #2,236.
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Kaylan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,236 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 36 (1995).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Kaylan, making it the 5,311th most common boys’ name of the year, down 809 places from #4,502 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 23 boys named Kaylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,236, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #4,971 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Kaylan, making it the 8,100th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,574 places from #6,526 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 girls named Kaylan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #879, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 231. For comparison, it was #3,454 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylan in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 5,203 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,915 babies named Kaylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 170 US boys were named Kaylan; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880) and Callan (12,634 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kaylan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,100 | 18 | #5,311 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,526 | 23 | #4,502 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,271 | 20 | #4,981 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,345 | 18 | #5,324 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,455 | 12 | #6,904 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,753 | 8 | #9,149 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,103 | 17 | #5,454 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,388 | 16 | #5,663 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,871 | 17 | #5,410 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,039 | 21 | #4,696 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,454 | 19 | #4,971 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,057 | 17 | #5,376 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,745 | 15 | #5,803 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,220 | 16 | #5,603 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,062 | 13 | #6,421 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,804 | 26 | #3,952 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,816 | 30 | #3,600 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,939 | 17 | #5,371 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,863 | 19 | #4,902 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,527 | 15 | #5,672 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,561 | 15 | #5,441 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,865 | 11 | #6,771 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,420 | 28 | #3,327 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,320 | 26 | #3,410 |
| 2001 | 167 | #1,216 | 18 | #4,383 |
| 2000 | 215 | #989 | 25 | #3,371 |
| 1999 | 193 | #1,053 | 18 | #4,086 |
| 1998 | 211 | #968 | 21 | #3,551 |
| 1997 | 231 | #879 | 25 | #3,030 |
| 1996 | 170 | #1,090 | 28 | #2,717 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,081 | 36 | #2,236 |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,035 | 31 | #2,472 |
| 1993 | 156 | #1,138 | 25 | #2,829 |
| 1992 | 149 | #1,179 | 24 | #2,883 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,570 | 15 | #3,921 |
| 1990 | 127 | #1,286 | 14 | #4,086 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,345 | 19 | #3,158 |
| 1988 | 104 | #1,369 | 17 | #3,149 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,846 | 11 | #4,108 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,792 | 9 | #4,666 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,513 | 11 | #3,923 |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,437 | 5 | #6,846 |
| 1983 | 95 | #1,288 | 7 | #5,206 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,475 | 5 | #6,871 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,505 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,610 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).