Meaning not yet researched.
Taylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 138 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,297 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,297 in 2021; #1,361 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Taylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,361 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,297.
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Taylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 138 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,297 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 147 (2021).
In 2025, 138 US boys were named Taylen, making it the 1,361st most common boys’ name of the year, up 159 places from #1,520 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 117 boys named Taylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,297, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 147. For comparison, it was #2,050 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Taylen, making it the 3,768th most common girls’ name of the year, up 606 places from #4,374 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 33 girls named Taylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,446, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #2,963 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taylen in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 3,440 US babies have been given the name, 36% of them girls and 64% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,459 babies named Taylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,136 US boys were named Taylen; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Taylen ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #422 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Talon (13,039 babies since 1880), Talan (4,033 babies since 1880), Taylin (3,672 babies since 1880) and Taelyn (2,522 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thailen 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: Thailen (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 Taylen 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12 | #422 | #796 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #515 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #624 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #664 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #689 | #777 |
| Missouri | 7 | #780 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #914 | #1,361 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #927 | #1,108 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,074 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,339 | #1,368 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,450 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,639 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,768 | 138 | #1,361 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,374 | 117 | #1,520 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,729 | 124 | #1,464 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,698 | 132 | #1,409 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,669 | 147 | #1,297 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,275 | 111 | #1,517 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,629 | 103 | #1,613 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,867 | 93 | #1,704 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,542 | 85 | #1,802 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,794 | 86 | #1,785 |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,963 | 70 | #2,050 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,805 | 76 | #1,917 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,704 | 93 | #1,644 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,446 | 71 | #2,001 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,553 | 71 | #1,964 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,156 | 67 | #2,054 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,865 | 88 | #1,753 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,539 | 62 | #2,181 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,067 | 56 | #2,332 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,848 | 57 | #2,244 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,778 | 49 | #2,395 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,806 | 29 | #3,361 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,298 | 44 | #2,423 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,431 | 35 | #2,747 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,674 | 42 | #2,381 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,282 | 32 | #2,855 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,641 | 32 | #2,717 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,343 | 22 | #3,473 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,289 | 17 | #4,032 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,881 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,551 | 13 | #4,756 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,548 | 9 | #6,307 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,686 | 13 | #4,667 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,665 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,472 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,355 |
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).