Kaylene
Feminine
Kaylene joins Kay to the -lene ending that Arlene, Darlene and Marlene made available in the middle of the twentieth century.
How old is the name Kaylene?
Kaylene first appears in US birth records in 1937 — 88 years ago. The typical Kaylene alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 4,800 people named Kaylene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaylene most popular?
Kaylene peaked in 1993, reaching #959 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 2,944 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaylene
Ours, offered as ours. Marlene is the ancestor of the whole -lene family and was itself a construction: a German actress blended Maria and Magdalene into one name in the 1920s and the ending came loose almost immediately. Darlene, Arlene, Charlene and Kaylene followed. That is a naming fashion traceable to a single person's decision about her own name, which is rarer than it sounds.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Kay is documented as a clip of Katherine, itself of genuinely unknown origin, and as a name in its own right. The -lene ending is a modern suffix taken from Marlene and Darlene rather than an inherited element.
Pronouncing Kaylene
kay-LEEN
Two syllables with the stress on the second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Kaylene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1937
- Most girls named
- 1993197 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #959reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- −43.1%37 in 2025, from 65
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kaylene in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kaylene in English — same name
- Kay in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Ohio, California.
Kaylenes among us
people named Kaylene are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Kaylene
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaylene
- #3903
- Kaylene on the 2025 chart
- #918
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaylene went to 37 girls in 2025, but Kailene is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 42, which makes it the 918th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,985 places above the chart.
- Kaylene37
- Kailene5
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Kaylene itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shawnna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaylene's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shawnna climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shawnna's path sketches the road Kaylene is walking now.
Kaylene sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kaylene is headed
Kaylene should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kaylene beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaylene in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kay and Lene are both complete names that stand on their own.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Eight letters and two syllables, straightforward to write.
- It is strongly associated with one mid-century American generation.
- Kaylene, Kaylynn and Kaylin are all in use and get confused.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaylenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,800 people named Kaylene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaylene?
- Kaylene is the most-used spelling in US records — 37 of the 42 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kailene.
- How popular is the name Kaylene in 2025?
- Kaylene ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaylene?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Kaylene — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaylene with classmates?
- Kaylene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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