Meaning not yet researched.
Khylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,834 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,834 in 2019; #3,108 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khylan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,108 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,834.
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Khylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,834 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 83 (2019).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Khylan, making it the 3,108th most common boys’ name of the year, down 887 places from #2,221 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 65 boys named Khylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,834, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #4,235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khylan in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 745 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 343 babies named Khylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 529 US boys were named Khylan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Khylen, Khylin and Khylon 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khylen (489), Khylin (389), Khylon (131), Khilyn (112), Khilan (89), Chelan (72), Khelan (53), Khylynn (45), Khilen (24), Kheelan (8), Khelen (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 Khylan 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 | — | — | 39 | #3,108 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,411 | 65 | #2,221 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,641 |
| 2022 | — | — | 55 | #2,505 |
| 2021 | — | — | 47 | #2,714 |
| 2020 | — | — | 58 | #2,337 |
| 2019 | — | — | 83 | #1,834 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,207 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,370 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,913 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,235 |
| 2014 | — | — | 20 | #4,785 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,253 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,177 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,261 | 23 | #4,293 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,950 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,443 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,382 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,396 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,213 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,856 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,578 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #11,677 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,979 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,848 |
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).