Kaylon
#4,472 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaylon has been given to 2,023 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #4,472 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 51 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.
Babies named Kaylon, 2025
1 in 144,000
Kaylon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kaylon over time
In 2025, Kaylon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kaylon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 74,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,472
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaylon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaylons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylon was born before 2002 — so the typical Kaylon is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,348
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (393).
Is Kaylon 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
- +497
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −858
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −536
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.85×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.1%
- Peak was 1996 (51)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kaylon
Kaylon is not the most common spelling — Taylor is, with 14.5% against Kaylon's 0.17%.
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 Kaylon is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kaylon was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 188,781 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kaylon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kaylon is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kaylon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 238,373 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 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. Kaylon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaylon around the world
Where Kaylon 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 & Wales1997–2024#4,271in 2024
- France2010–2025#1,164in 2025
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaylon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kaylon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaylon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.