Kaylen

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kaylen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kaylen: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #382, and it stood at #1,460 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#382highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2000	#3912
2001	#3998
2005	#3382
2006	#3116
2007	#3218
2008	#4524
2009	#2759
2010	#4012
2011	#5785
2013	#5742
2016	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 1998: #498 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3142 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2023
Highest recorded position: #382 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2023).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1460 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kaylen appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 632 births with the name.

Kaylen across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kaylen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#718 (2011)	#1460 (2024)	29 of 29	632 (1996–2024)	44 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#382 (1997)	#382 (1997)	#770 (2023)	4 of 27	15 (1997–2023)	5 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#2759 (2009)	#5785 (2016)	12 of 19	53 (1998–2016)	8 (2009)

Kaylen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kaylen in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	37	4 of 10	9
2000s	109	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	368	10 of 10	37
2020s	118	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kaylen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #382 in Republic of Ireland in 1997.

Kaylen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1460	18	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1309	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1011	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1139	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1019	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#908	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#771	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#856	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#988	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#783	40	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#805	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#718	44	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#744	40	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1201	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1188	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#382	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #382, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kaylie · #753, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ossian · #382, 26y
Raul · #382, 29y
Agatha · #380, 33y
Aspen · #384, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ossian · #382, 26y
Ramsay · #382, 19y
Raul · #382, 29y
Rubie · #382, 29y

Kaylen was ranked #382 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kaylen and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kaylen without appearing here.

Kaylen moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1175 and #4527.
Kelly Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2870 and #2538 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1201 and #3095.
Lene Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3382 and #4798.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2870 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1201 and #2435.

Moved ahead of Kaylen

Ezra Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4012 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #3185.
Josefine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2759 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.
Dylan Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3116 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3218 and #2085.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #1425.

Moved the opposite way to Kaylen

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 while Ada went from #3142 to #164.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 while Alma went from #2165 to #529.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 while Alyssa went from #561 to #198.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 while Amalie went from #3848 to #703.

Moved the same way as Kaylen

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 and Abigail from #22 to #58.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 and Aimee from #68 to #400.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Kaylen went from #3142 to #5785 and Aisling from #391 to #1416.
Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kaylen went from #2870 to #1460 and Aksel from #4052 to #1132.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #382 in Republic of Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kaylen

Kaylen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kaylen across 3 official records

Kaylen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kaylen appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kaylen at a glance

Kaylen across 3 official records

Kaylen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kaylen appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kaylen

Kaylen and the names beside it

Kaylen moved ahead of

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