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The first name 
Kaylan

Kaylan is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.

When two girls called Kaylan meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kaylan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Kaylan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kaylan is #3,634 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kaylan.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kaylan

Kaylan -
keeping with the times

Kaylan is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Kaylan - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 770 in 1997. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Kaylan really in tune with her generation.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kaylan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kaylan in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

37 babies were named Kaylan in 2022 - that's 1 in 7,801,679 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kaylan ranked 3,505 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Kaylan -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Kaylan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to women and girls named Kaylan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Kaylan living in one state or another. If your name is Kaylan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Tennessee, which has the most people named Kaylan relative to the population, you still have to ask 17,734 women and girls their names before you hear Kaylan as an answer just once.

Kaylan has 6 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Kaylan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.

Other names with 
K, a, y, l, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Kaylan – K, a, y, l, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kanyla or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kaylan

If your name is Kaylan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kaylan

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kaylan, you can simply say:

Koala

Apple

Yoyo

Lion

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Kaylan is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kaylan in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kaylan

Kaylan

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kaylan

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kaylan is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
A
Y
L
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Kaylan

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
A
Y
L
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kaylan sounds like this: