Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,795 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,795 in 1995; #4,473 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaylon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,473 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,795.
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Kaylon: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,795 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 51 (1996).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Kaylon, making it the 4,473rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 500 places from #4,973 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 20 boys named Kaylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,795, reached in 1995. The most boys given the name in a single year was 51, in 1996. For comparison, it was #3,938 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Kaylon in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,264, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 37, in 2000. For comparison, it was #11,387 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylon in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 2,023 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 661 babies named Kaylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 250 US boys were named Kaylon; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 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 Kaylynn (12,257 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 Kaylon 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 | — | — | 23 | #4,473 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #4,973 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,068 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,506 | 29 | #3,826 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,363 | 26 | #4,072 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,617 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,116 | 30 | #3,672 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,663 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,026 | 21 | #4,673 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,281 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,387 | 27 | #3,938 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,547 | 27 | #3,849 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,631 | 34 | #3,236 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,745 | 40 | #2,930 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,783 | 23 | #4,290 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,128 | 32 | #3,415 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,885 | 32 | #3,439 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,430 | 34 | #3,314 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,779 | 24 | #4,188 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,681 | 26 | #3,846 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,712 | 34 | #3,058 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,489 | 35 | #2,927 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,506 | 39 | #2,600 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,996 | 35 | #2,729 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,829 | 37 | #2,594 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,555 | 40 | #2,406 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,382 | 39 | #2,317 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,875 | 44 | #2,113 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,264 | 50 | #1,871 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,383 | 51 | #1,802 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,319 | 49 | #1,795 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,743 | 38 | #2,147 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,907 | 36 | #2,187 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,372 | 31 | #2,383 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,724 | 25 | #2,718 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,973 | 30 | #2,349 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,678 | 23 | #2,739 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,564 | 18 | #3,029 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,433 | 17 | #3,020 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,943 | 27 | #2,132 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,236 | 16 | #3,020 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,034 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,618 | 9 | #4,324 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,580 | 11 | #3,817 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,663 | 7 | #5,219 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,735 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,234 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,430 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,390 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,681 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,371 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,148 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,552 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,191 | — | — |
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).