girls:
7k births since 1949
#1952 (66th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1983
#3325 (27th percentile)
overall:
8.3k births since 1949
#2957 (62nd percentile)
The name Kaylen is the #2,957 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,327 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 61.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,952 (65.8% percentile) for all time with 7,039 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #3,325 (27.5% percentile) for all time with 1,288 births since 1983.
Kaylen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Kaylen is available in 50 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 39 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kaylen has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 58.3% of babies named Kaylen were girls.
For girls, Kaylen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 40.4% percentile (ranked #572) with 210 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 210 births per million (ranked 40.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaylen ranks #875 for girls (7.6% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kaylen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #842) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 30 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kaylen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #861 (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaylen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kaylen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Kaylen is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-lihn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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