Kayln
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kayln has been given to 525 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Kayln, 2017
1 in 511,000
Kayln over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kayln?
Kayln had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 511,000
- 7 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 247,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 354,210 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kayln sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayln. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaylns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayln was born before 1998 — so the typical Kayln is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 43.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 525
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (226).
Is Kayln 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (29)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kayln
Kayln is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 38.7% against Kayln's 0.02%.
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 Kayln is used
Across 1910–2025, Kayln was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 767,557 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
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. Kayln has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kayln around the world
Where Kayln 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 & Wales2015–2015#4,747in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kayln by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kayln
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kayln
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.