Meaning not yet researched.
Kylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,143 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,143 in 2003; #2,699 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kylon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,699 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #2,143.
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Kylon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,143 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 57 (2019).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Kylon, making it the 2,699th most common boys’ name of the year, up 77 places from #2,776 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 47 boys named Kylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,143, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 57, in 2019. For comparison, it was #3,335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylon in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,432 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 479 babies named Kylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 472 US boys were named Kylon; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylon ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #638 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880), Kylen (5,424 babies since 1880), Kylian (3,750 babies since 1880) and Kylin (3,449 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kylon 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #638 | #769 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,699 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,776 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,867 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,698 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,275 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,824 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,381 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,495 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,044 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,321 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,335 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,782 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,350 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,747 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,571 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,453 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,472 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,860 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,326 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,432 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,511 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,366 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,143 |
| 2002 | — | — | 43 | #2,395 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,661 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,713 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,497 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,658 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,539 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,462 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,509 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,022 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,940 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,730 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,958 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,694 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,490 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,979 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,587 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,119 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,836 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,527 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,973 |
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).