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Kylan

About 11,821 American babies have been named Kylan since 1969, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 578th. About 12,000 Kylans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kylan boys named Kylan

By the numbers

Total US births
11,821
Estimated living today
12,000
Median age today
11
Peak year
2022
Best rank
515th
Rank in 2025
578th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
1,087 / 10,734

How old the living Kylans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 11,821 babies given the name since 1969, about 12,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Modern coinage; compare Kyle. Variant: Kylen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Kylan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kylan is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.3×), Tennessee (4.8×), Arkansas (3.6×), Louisiana (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular boys’ names the year Kylan peaked:

All the names of 2022

Kylan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Kylan 1,156 402nd
France boys Kylan 730 789th
Ireland boys Kylan 56 435th
Scotland boys Kylan 47 390th
Belgium boys Kylan 31 1,238th
Northern Ireland boys Kylan 15 311th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kylan: rank by region

In 2011, Kylan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Kylan 866 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

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Kylan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.