Kylan

What Kylan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kylan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kylan?

US: Rising: up from #668 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #543 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 576 boys got the name (#515 that year). First in the US records in 1969.

How common

• About 1 in 3,369 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,065 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (1.7 per 1,000 boys), MS (1.2 per 1,000 boys), AR (1.19 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Kylan is #578 in the US and #1007 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.5% of US babies named Kylan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kylen272 US · 11 E&W
• Kellan215 US · 4 E&W
• Kylin94 US
• Kallan82 US
• Kalen71 US · 5 E&W
• Keelan55 US · 12 E&W
• Kaylen36 US · 28 E&W
• Kylon48 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kylan

Boys

• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*

For a sister

• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kylan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.