Fun Facts About the Name Kylan
- More than 11 thousand babies named Kylan: U.S. records list 11,816 babies given the name Kylan from 1880 through 2025. Even 1,085 girls received the name Kylan - about 1 girl for every 10 boys.
What Does the Name Kylan Mean?
Kylan is most often explained as an anglicized spelling of the Irish name Caolán, formed from the Irish adjective caol, meaning "narrow" or "slender," and the diminutive suffix -án. Read literally, that gives "little slender one." The same Irish name has been written in English in several ways, among them Keelan, Kelan, and Kealan, and Kylan belongs to that group of spellings rather than to a separate root.
A second, looser explanation treats Kylan as a modern English coinage built on Kyle with the ending -an, or as a blend of Kyle and Dylan. That reading rests on the sound of the name rather than on any recorded derivation, so it should be treated as a guess rather than a confirmed etymology.
Kylan Name History & Origins
Caolán is an old Irish personal name, and it was borne by early Irish saints, which helped keep it in use in Gaelic-speaking Ireland. Because Irish spelling and English spelling represent the same sounds very differently, the name passed into English as a range of forms: the slender caol- beginning was written variously as Keel-, Kel-, Keal-, or Kyl-, and the -án ending, pronounced "awn," was reduced in English to an unstressed ending that could be written -an, -en, or -on.
Irish names of this type traveled with emigration to Britain, North America, and Australia, and Keelan and Kelan are long-established English spellings of the name. Kylan follows the same pronunciation pattern but uses English spelling conventions: the y stands in for the ee sound of Keelan, while the unstressed final syllable is written -an. In the United States the name is also sometimes chosen independently of any Irish reference, simply as a two-syllable name ending in -an in the style of Kyle, Dylan, or Ryan, and in that setting its link to Caolán is not always intended.
How Popular is the Name Kylan?
Kylan recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2022. Its best rank was #515 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,126 | 35 | 0.0022% |
| 2024 | #4,070 | 36 | 0.0022% |
| 2023 | #3,805 | 40 | 0.0025% |
| 2022 | #4,250 | 34 | 0.0021% |
| 2021 | #6,293 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2020 | #5,578 | 22 | 0.0014% |
| 2019 | #4,216 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2018 | #4,408 | 32 | 0.0019% |
| 2017 | #4,115 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2015 | #3,737 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2014 | #4,150 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2013 | #3,677 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2012 | #3,614 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2011 | #3,813 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2010 | #3,922 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2009 | #3,490 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2008 | #4,233 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2007 | #3,953 | 40 | 0.0021% |
| 2006 | #3,704 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 2005 | #3,686 | 40 | 0.0022% |
| 2004 | #4,439 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2003 | #5,329 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2002 | #4,229 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #3,909 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2000 | #4,899 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1999 | #4,956 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1998 | #5,484 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1997 | #5,320 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1996 | #5,931 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1995 | #5,135 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1994 | #6,505 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1993 | #6,114 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1992 | #8,431 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1991 | #14,317 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #9,734 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #10,289 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1988 | #9,816 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #10,564 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #579 | 507 | 0.0297% |
| 2024 | #532 | 558 | 0.0325% |
| 2023 | #548 | 535 | 0.0313% |
| 2022 | #515 | 576 | 0.0330% |
| 2021 | #573 | 488 | 0.0279% |
| 2020 | #525 | 543 | 0.0315% |
| 2019 | #558 | 501 | 0.0279% |
| 2018 | #550 | 507 | 0.0279% |
| 2017 | #626 | 418 | 0.0226% |
| 2016 | #616 | 438 | 0.0231% |
| 2015 | #668 | 385 | 0.0201% |
| 2014 | #660 | 389 | 0.0203% |
| 2013 | #677 | 356 | 0.0188% |
| 2012 | #644 | 372 | 0.0196% |
| 2011 | #648 | 363 | 0.0191% |
| 2010 | #674 | 355 | 0.0185% |
| 2009 | #714 | 333 | 0.0168% |
| 2008 | #765 | 291 | 0.0143% |
| 2007 | #780 | 280 | 0.0135% |
| 2006 | #747 | 284 | 0.0138% |
| 2005 | #811 | 233 | 0.0117% |
| 2004 | #792 | 228 | 0.0115% |
| 2003 | #881 | 193 | 0.0098% |
| 2002 | #877 | 187 | 0.0096% |
| 2001 | #888 | 178 | 0.0092% |
| 2000 | #995 | 149 | 0.0076% |
| 1999 | #995 | 142 | 0.0074% |
| 1998 | #1,002 | 137 | 0.0072% |
| 1997 | #1,123 | 113 | 0.0060% |
| 1996 | #1,191 | 96 | 0.0051% |
| 1995 | #1,235 | 89 | 0.0047% |
| 1994 | #1,358 | 74 | 0.0038% |
| 1993 | #1,862 | 45 | 0.0023% |
| 1992 | #1,826 | 45 | 0.0023% |
| 1991 | #2,078 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 1990 | #1,895 | 41 | 0.0020% |
| 1989 | #2,091 | 34 | 0.0017% |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 1987 | #2,604 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1986 | #2,844 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1985 | #2,780 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1984 | #2,496 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1983 | #2,856 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1982 | #3,411 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1981 | #2,842 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1980 | #4,001 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1979 | #3,959 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1978 | #3,521 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1977 | #3,298 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1976 | #3,386 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1974 | #3,050 | 12 | 0.0008% |
| 1972 | #5,406 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1969 | #4,737 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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