Meaning not yet researched.
Kysen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,317 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,317 in 2020; #1,557 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kysen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,557 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,317.
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Kysen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,317 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 137 (2024).
In 2025, 110 US boys were named Kysen, making it the 1,557th most common boys’ name of the year, down 181 places from #1,376 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 137 boys named Kysen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,317, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 137, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,864 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kysen in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 8 babies. In all, 1,622 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 762 babies named Kysen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,124 US boys were named Kysen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,528 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kysen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #503 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyson (9,961 babies since 1880) and Kesean (1,236 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keysean, Kisean and Keisen 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: Keysean (241), Kisean (63), Keisen (10), Kizen (8), Kyizen (6), Kyezen (6).
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 Kysen 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #503 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #731 | #906 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #817 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #826 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,061 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,095 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,186 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,408 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,524 | #2,040 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,562 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,924 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 110 | #1,557 |
| 2024 | — | — | 137 | #1,376 |
| 2023 | — | — | 86 | #1,858 |
| 2022 | — | — | 114 | #1,562 |
| 2021 | — | — | 108 | #1,594 |
| 2020 | — | — | 137 | #1,317 |
| 2019 | — | — | 132 | #1,360 |
| 2018 | — | — | 105 | #1,588 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,674 |
| 2016 | — | — | 100 | #1,615 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,864 |
| 2014 | — | — | 50 | #2,501 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,580 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,469 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,361 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,534 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,609 |
| 2008 | — | — | 29 | #3,695 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,305 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,315 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,459 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,661 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,968 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,342 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,604 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,880 |
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).