Meaning not yet researched.
Kylene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #779 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #779 in 1979. No US babies were recorded with the name Kylene in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #779 in 1979.
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Kylene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #779 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 205 (1979).
Fewer than five US girls were named Kylene in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #779, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #9,848 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylene in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 1,693 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 610 babies named Kylene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 56 US girls were named Kylene; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880), Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880), Kylin (3,449 babies since 1880) and Kylon (1,432 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kylynne 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: Kylynne (49).
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 Kylene 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,588 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,589 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,739 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,773 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,039 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,202 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,848 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,309 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,829 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,004 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,821 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,545 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,265 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,048 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,268 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,036 | — | — |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,227 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,594 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,338 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,730 | — | — |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1980 | 149 | #990 | — | — |
| 1979 | 205 | #779 | — | — |
| 1978 | 88 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,670 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,804 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,194 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,910 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,182 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,118 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,063 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,086 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,436 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,561 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,146 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,637 | — | — |
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).