Kaylan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 24 babies a year in England and Wales.
Kaylan by the numbers
In 2025, 24 babies in England and Wales were named Kaylan. In the US, 45 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 231 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kaylan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kaylan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kaylan
Names that are said the same way as Kaylan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Callanpowerful warrior; a form of cailean393 in the US (2017)
- Calanbright; from calan dawn6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kalonbeautiful and good; from kalon14 in the US (2017)
- Caileanyoung warrior; a form of Cailum4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Calonheart4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Callen489 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kaylan
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