Kaylum
#8,587 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaylum has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #8,587 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Kaylum, 2025
1 in 368,000
Kaylum 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaylum?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,587
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaylum 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaylums were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylum was born before 2015 — so the typical Kaylum is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 158
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Kaylum 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −785
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,511
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 69.2%
- Peak was 2022 (13)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kaylum
Kaylum is not the most common spelling — Callum is, with 50.4% against Kaylum's 0.50%.
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.
Kaylum around the world
Where Kaylum 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- Scotland1997–2016#707in 2016
- Ireland2000–2025#829in 2025
- Canada2004–2014#1,591in 2014
- South Australia2001–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kaylum by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaylum
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaylum
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.