How rare is the name Kaylen?

7,086 people in the United States have the first name Kaylen, about 1 in 42,624. It ranks #3,104 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KAYLEN

#3,104

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,086
About
1 in 42,624
This common or more
81.7%
Who bears it

Of the 7,086 people named Kaylen, 44.9% reported their origin as White, 26.7% as Black and 17.6% as Hispanic or Latino. 86.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kaylen peaked in 2009, when 489 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19492025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
489
In 2025*
97 ▼80%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 8,504 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kaylen by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,469. The largest share of babies named Kaylen, 57.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#12,5745
1960s#13,98612
1970s#16,48022
1980s#4,223364
1990s#2,0291,545
2000s#1,4693,197
2010s#1,8392,632
2020s#3,121727
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–800.4%
Millennials 1981–9615.3%
Generation Z 1997–1257.3%
2013 and later26.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kaylen is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kaylen has been most common in Georgia (2.7×), Florida (2.1×), and Alabama (2.1×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.15×).

5,386 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Kaylen

#3,101 Lottie · 7,103#3,103 Susannah · 7,095#3,105 Khadija · 7,084#3,106 Jacky · 7,083

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kaylen, most common first.

#1,770 Kaylin · 17,014#2,380 Kaylyn · 10,517#3,376 Kayleen · 6,263#3,854 Kalen · 5,108#4,158 Kaylan · 4,620#4,360 Kaylene · 4,312#7,144 Kallen · 2,159#9,088 Kaylon · 1,558

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