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Kaylene

#3,946 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kaylene has been given to 5,070 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #3,946 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 197 recorded.

Babies named Kaylene, 2025

1 in 89,600

Kaylene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaylene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaylene means

Kaylene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaylene is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,070 girls were recorded with the name Kaylene between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 197 in 1993; its best national rank was #959 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,113 in 2020 to #3,946 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,329 in 2015 to #3,946 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 Kaylene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,946
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaylene 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaylenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylene was born before 1993 — so the typical Kaylene is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,845
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (1,054).

Is Kaylene 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
+130
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+167
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,617
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 1993 (197)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#959
1993

Spellings of Kaylene

Kaylene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 19.1% against Kaylene's 0.47%.

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 Kaylene is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaylene was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 26,343 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 6,250
  2. 2Ohio1 in 8,333
  3. 3Indiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Kaylene around the world

Where Kaylene 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kaylene

People whose public names include Kaylene, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kaylene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,946
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 167
Best rank ever
#959
1993
Peak year
1993
197 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,070
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Kaylene

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

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Names with a curve like Kaylene

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

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Sibling names for Kaylene

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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