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Kayleen

#2,524 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kayleen has been given to 7,995 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #2,524 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 284 recorded.

Babies named Kayleen, 2025

1 in 47,400

Kayleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kayleen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kayleen means

Kayleen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kayleen is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,995 girls were recorded with the name Kayleen between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 284 in 2010; its best national rank was #916 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,775 in 2020 to #2,524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,343 in 2015 to #2,524 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kayleen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 47,400
70 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,524
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,828 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kayleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kayleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayleen was born before 2003 — so the typical Kayleen is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,751
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (1,966).

Is Kayleen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−749
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,181
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.6%
Peak was 2010 (284)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#916
2010

Spellings of Kayleen

Kayleen is not the most common spelling — Kathleen is, with 55.4% against Kayleen's 0.62%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kayleen is used

Across 2016–2025, Kayleen was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 10,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,882
  2. 2California1 in 6,250
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,143
  4. 4New York1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6Florida1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Kayleen around the world

Where Kayleen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    2005–2025
    #2,109
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kayleen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 749
Best rank ever
#916
2010
Peak year
2010
284 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,995
Count in 2025
70

Names similar to Kayleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kayleen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kayleen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KeilaBrynJoslynShylaMeliaPatienceKarisDaniaJaciKeeleyNellyKinsey

Sibling names for Kayleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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