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 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 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 1948
Top boys' names in 1948
More about 1948
boys
1,754,618 boys got a published name in 1948; 1 in 175,462 of them was named Alyn, which outranked 41.8% of the 4,199 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,326Woodroe11
- #2,326Yvonne11
- #2,326Zeb11
- #2,443Alyn10
- #2,443Algernon10
- #2,443Alvan10
- #2,443Arcadio10
- #2,608Adron9
- #2,608Alejo9
- #2,608Alger9
Tied with 164 names at #2,443; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.