Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #688 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #688 in 2009; #2,796 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Kaylen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,796 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #688.
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Kaylen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #688 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 425 (2009).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Kaylen, making it the 2,796th most common girls’ name of the year, up 562 places from #3,358 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 47 girls named Kaylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #688, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 425. For comparison, it was #1,194 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Kaylen, making it the 3,275th most common boys’ name of the year, up 575 places from #3,850 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 29 boys named Kaylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,130, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #2,741 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylen in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 8,504 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,197 babies named Kaylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,007 US girls were named Kaylen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylen ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,023 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Kaylynn (12,257 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kayleene are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kayleene (5).
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 Kaylen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,023 | #1,408 |
| New York | 5 | #2,255 | #1,438 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,324 | #1,573 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,116 | #1,047 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,796 | 36 | #3,275 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,358 | 29 | #3,850 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,347 | 56 | #2,427 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,130 | 50 | #2,658 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,165 | 46 | #2,755 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,875 | 44 | #2,785 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,906 | 40 | #3,026 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,636 | 31 | #3,575 |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,521 | 38 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,443 | 36 | #3,191 |
| 2015 | 210 | #1,194 | 44 | #2,741 |
| 2014 | 239 | #1,073 | 52 | #2,446 |
| 2013 | 269 | #939 | 54 | #2,348 |
| 2012 | 273 | #937 | 52 | #2,432 |
| 2011 | 310 | #850 | 49 | #2,528 |
| 2010 | 343 | #798 | 51 | #2,451 |
| 2009 | 425 | #688 | 64 | #2,130 |
| 2008 | 407 | #733 | 50 | #2,530 |
| 2007 | 335 | #848 | 52 | #2,463 |
| 2006 | 306 | #871 | 30 | #3,481 |
| 2005 | 310 | #827 | 37 | #2,873 |
| 2004 | 235 | #1,005 | 33 | #3,049 |
| 2003 | 233 | #995 | 29 | #3,240 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,081 | 34 | #2,792 |
| 2001 | 189 | #1,120 | 22 | #3,789 |
| 2000 | 184 | #1,110 | 25 | #3,372 |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,162 | 26 | #3,151 |
| 1998 | 205 | #987 | 27 | #2,977 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,208 | 26 | #2,942 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,303 | 21 | #3,342 |
| 1995 | 126 | #1,320 | 28 | #2,654 |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,299 | 25 | #2,900 |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,190 | 21 | #3,200 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,654 | 12 | #4,711 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,737 | 17 | #3,545 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,693 | 21 | #3,011 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,860 | 13 | #4,165 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,899 | 12 | #4,054 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,695 | 8 | #5,108 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,893 | 7 | #5,459 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,189 | 6 | #5,876 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,062 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,088 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,142 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,460 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,464 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,979 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,583 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,634 | — | — |
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).