Alyn
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 59.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 31 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 477since 1947
Alyn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | — | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #6,641 | 19 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
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| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,191 | 12 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,843 | 16 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alyn! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alyn
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 1,521 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #11,932)
- 5,211 spots since 2015 (#6,721 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2005 at #4,373 (31 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 59,608 girls born in 2005 were named Alyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.0% of all girls named Alyn (191) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 18 | #4,908 (1952) | #5,119 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,578 (1962) | #6,578 |
| 1970s | 14 | #6,892 (1977) | #7,727 |
| 1980s | 24 | #9,015 (1983) | #9,323 |
| 1990s | 57 | #8,805 (1999) | #10,815 |
| 2000s | 191 | #4,373 (2005) | #6,884 |
| 2010s | 117 | #6,641 (2010) | #9,834 |
| 2020s | 46 | #6,707 (2022) | #11,026 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alyn in 1947
Top girls' names in 1947
Top boys' names in 1947
More about 1947
girls
1,772,766 girls got a published name in 1947; 1 in 354,553 of them was named Alyn, which outranked 13.3% of the 6,104 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 809 names at #5,295; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,829,599 boys got a published name in 1947; 1 in 261,371 of them was named Alyn, which outranked 27.4% of the 4,266 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,862Yancey8
- #2,862Yancy8
- #2,862Ygnacio8
- #3,096Alyn7
- #3,096Albaro7
- #3,096Albertus7
- #3,096Aleck7
- #3,370Abdullah6
- #3,370Abundio6
- #3,370Albion6
Tied with 273 names at #3,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.