Keylen
#4,956 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keylen has been given to 609 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #4,956 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.
Babies named Keylen, 2025
1 in 166,000
Keylen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keylen over time
In 2025, Keylen went to 20% girls and 80% 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 Keylen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,956
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keylen 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keylen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keylens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keylen was born before 2012 — so the typical Keylen is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 349
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (139).
Is Keylen 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
- +1,697
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,459
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,573
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.54×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.2%
- Peak was 2006 (21)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Keylen
Keylen is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 61.3% against Keylen's 0.04%.
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 Keylen is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Keylen was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Keylen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Keylen is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Keylen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 601,993 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Keylen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keylen around the world
Where Keylen 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.
- France2025–2025#5,541in 2025
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keylen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keylen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keylen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.