Kylen

What Kylen means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #878 vs #2,133 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kylen?

US: Rising: up from #987 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #2020 in 2015, #2133 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 272 boys got the name (#878 that year). First in the US records in 1981.

How common

• About 1 in 6,280 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 24,721 baby boys in England and Wales 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 AR (0.64 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.63 per 1,000 boys), SC (0.57 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Kylen is #878 in the US and #2133 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.2% of US babies named Kylen were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kylan507 US · 30 E&W
• Kellen202 US
• Kallen150 US · 3 E&W
• Kylin94 US
• Kalen71 US · 5 E&W
• Kaylen36 US · 28 E&W
• Kylon48 US
• Kaylan18 US · 24 E&W

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 Kylen

Boys

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

For a sister

• 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”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*

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 Kylen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.