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Kayler

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
KAY-ler
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#4,706 for boys

Kayler is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,706th for boys in the US (21 babies).

Where does Kayler come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps patterned on Kyler

Is Kayler a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Kayler has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 21 boys in the US.

How popular is Kayler in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,706among boys
Babies in 2025
21about 1 in 81,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 12% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 21 boys in the US were named Kayler, making it the 4,706th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000. 7 girls were also named Kayler in 2025 (11,928th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Kayler in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 216 boys in the US were given Kayler or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #945, up from #4,706 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 24 in 20242025
Kayler in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202521#4,706
202424#4,318
202310#7,733
202220#4,846
20218#8,820
202019#4,851
201916#5,551
201814#6,032
201711#7,091
20168#8,811
201511#7,061
201410#7,557
201315#5,655
20128#8,858
201121#4,507
201012#6,692
20095#12,486
20080–
20076#10,915
20060–
20050–
20046#9,941
20030–
20020–
20010–
20005#10,341

Names like Kayler

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kayler

Names related to Kayler

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kayler: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kayler, updated 20 October 2026.