Kaylon
Masculine
Kaylon is given to both — 1,348 boys and 675 girls since 1880. See Kaylon as a girl 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 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Kaylon alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,300 people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kaylon most popular?
Kaylon peaked in 1995, reaching #1782 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,614 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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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
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 199651 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1782reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- +15.0%23 in 2025, from 20
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.
Kaylon in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Kaylons among us
people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Kaylon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kaylon
- #4396
- Kaylon on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kaylon went to 23 boys in 2025, but Kailon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 891st most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,505 places above the chart.
- Kaylon23
- Kailon14
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 74,264 for Kaylon 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 Juventino test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kaylon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Juventino climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Juventino's path sketches the road Kaylon is walking now.
Kaylon 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
Kaylon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kaylon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
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 1,300 people named Kaylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kaylon?
- Kaylon is the most-used spelling in US records — 23 of the 37 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kailon.
- How popular is the name Kaylon in 2025?
- Kaylon ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kaylon?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Kaylon — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kaylon with classmates?
- Kaylon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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