Kaylon
Feminine
Kaylon is given to both — 675 girls and 1,348 boys since 1880. See Kaylon as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kaylon joins a front syllable to an ending, neither of which is a word, and the record holds it for daughters as well as sons. The mineral its letters approach is named after a hill in China and is in a surprising number of ordinary things.
How old is the name Kaylon?
Kaylon first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Kaylon alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 700 people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaylon most popular?
Kaylon peaked in 1997, reaching #3224 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kaylon
Kaolin is named after Gaoling, a hill in Jiangxi province — the name means high ridge — where the white clay was dug for the porcelain kilns at Jingdezhen. European potters spent most of the eighteenth century trying to work out what Chinese porcelain was made of, and the answer, when a Jesuit missionary sent the details back, was this clay plus a feldspar rock, fired very hot. The word came into European languages with the substance. It is now in more places than the porcelain: it is the filler that makes glossy paper glossy, it is in toothpaste and cosmetics, it is the active ingredient in some anti-diarrhoeal medicines, and it is dug in enormous quantities in Cornwall, Georgia and Brazil. A Chinese hill's name is printed on the side of a great many tubes.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is documented. Both elements were free pieces in wide circulation when the name was made. The mineral name is a coincidence of spelling and there is no evidence any family meant it.
Pronouncing Kaylon
KAY-lon
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Both halves keep a full vowel, which is what stops the name collapsing into one syllable in quick speech.
Nicknames for Kaylon
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
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 200037 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3224reached in 1997
- Change vs 2021
- −16.7%5 in 2022, from 6
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.
Kaylons among us
people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kaylon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves detach as short forms and each is a standing name.
- Two syllables with front stress is the plainest shape English has.
- The spelling is phonetic and survives being heard once.
- Kaylin, Kalon and Kaelon are all recorded and will be written for it.
- The record holds it for daughters too, so it signals nothing about sex.
- Neither element carries a meaning, so the origin question has a short answer.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaylons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Kaylon in 2025?
- Kaylon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Kaylon with classmates?
- Kaylon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More K names
The most-given names starting with K, all years combined.
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