Meaning not yet researched.
Kylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 507 in 2025. Its best rank was #515 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #515 in 2022; #579 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Kylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#579 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #515.
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Kylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 507 boys in 2025. Peak: #515 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 576 (2022).
In 2025, 507 US boys were named Kylan, making it the 579th most common boys’ name of the year, down 44 places from #535 in 2024. That is 51 fewer than the 558 boys named Kylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #515, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 576. For comparison, it was #668 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylan in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 11,821 US babies have been given the name, 9.2% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,471 babies named Kylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,072 US boys were named Kylan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 576. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,369 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylan ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #230 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880), Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880), Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880) and Kylian (3,750 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kylyn, Kylinn and Kilyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kylyn (548), Kylinn (288), Kilyn (196), Kylenn (65), Kylann (34), Kyelan (20), Kyliann (15), Kyelin (12), Kylain (11), Kyleon (5), Kylun (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 Kylan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 5 | #230 | — |
| Arkansas | 15 | #242 | — |
| South Carolina | 23 | #250 | #430 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #251 | #158 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #273 | #229 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #290 | #481 |
| Georgia | 41 | #305 | #366 |
| Indiana | 25 | #312 | #501 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #328 | #278 |
| Alabama | 17 | #328 | #305 |
| Ohio | 27 | #403 | #460 |
| Missouri | 16 | #407 | #479 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #441 | #740 |
| Kansas | 8 | #452 | — |
| Illinois | 19 | #524 | #628 |
| Florida | 33 | #537 | #641 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #597 | #334 |
| Texas | 48 | #636 | #831 |
| Virginia | 11 | #651 | #949 |
| Michigan | 11 | #699 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #724 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #741 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #762 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #885 | — |
| California | 25 | #922 | #1,293 |
| Arizona | 5 | #987 | #963 |
| New York | 8 | #1,363 | #1,422 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,126 | 507 | #579 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,081 | 558 | #535 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,745 | 536 | #548 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,255 | 576 | #515 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,298 | 488 | #574 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,580 | 543 | #525 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,217 | 501 | #558 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,408 | 507 | #550 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,115 | 418 | #626 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,681 | 438 | #616 |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,739 | 385 | #668 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,150 | 390 | #659 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,677 | 356 | #677 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,617 | 372 | #644 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,813 | 363 | #648 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,922 | 355 | #674 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,490 | 333 | #714 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,235 | 291 | #765 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,888 | 281 | #778 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,704 | 284 | #747 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,686 | 233 | #811 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,439 | 228 | #792 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,330 | 193 | #881 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,229 | 187 | #877 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,909 | 178 | #888 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,899 | 149 | #995 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,956 | 142 | #995 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,484 | 137 | #1,002 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,320 | 113 | #1,123 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,931 | 96 | #1,191 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,135 | 89 | #1,235 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,504 | 74 | #1,358 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,113 | 45 | #1,862 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,431 | 45 | #1,826 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,317 | 36 | #2,077 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,734 | 41 | #1,895 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,289 | 34 | #2,092 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,817 | 34 | #1,935 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,604 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,845 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,780 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,495 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,854 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,411 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,842 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,003 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,958 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,564 | 11 | #3,521 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,298 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,387 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,050 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,406 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,736 |
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).