Catelyn

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293

Peak · girls
2000 · 91 births
Debut · girls
24 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,294
since 1985

Catelyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Catelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202004peak #1,869, 2000girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025
2024#15,2935
2023
2022#9,68010
2021#8,46412
2020#7,96913
2019#7,34215
2018#5,61922
2017#4,69529
2016#4,99027
2015#3,34648
2014#3,11253
2013#3,12352
2012#2,40177
2011#2,21685
2010#2,11893
2009#2,33883
2008#2,12295
2007#2,034100
2006#1,878108
2005#1,911101
2004#1,883100
2003#1,98591
2002#2,15877
2001#2,23672
2000#1,86991
1999#2,22267
1998#1,89980
1997#1,94574
1996#2,01469
1995#2,08365
1994#2,20960
1993#2,01269
1992#1,90873
1991#2,32055
1990#2,40251
1989#1,99863
1988#2,48943
1987#3,42426
1986#4,72416
1985#3,51724
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five girls were named Catelyn! It came in at #3,517, and was given to 24 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2023–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Catelyn
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2000 at #1,869 (91 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,604
  • Highest: 1 in 17,604 girls born in 2006 were named Catelyn (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 324,038 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,869 in 2000, was only 1 in 19,956 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 40.0% of all girls named Catelyn (918) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s172#1,998 (1989)#3,230
1990s663#1,899 (1998)#2,101
2000s918#1,869 (2000)#2,041
2010s501#2,118 (2010)#3,896
2020s40#7,969 (2020)#10,352

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.

Catelyn in 2004

girls
#1,883
100 births · 1 in 18,363 girls

Top girls' names in 2004

  1. #1Emily25,042
  2. #2Emma21,625
  3. #3Madison20,628
  4. #4Olivia16,108
  5. #5Hannah15,614
  6. #6Abigail15,436
  7. #7Isabella15,021
  8. #8Ashley14,377
  9. #9Samantha13,786
  10. #10Elizabeth13,577
  11. #1,883Catelyn100
More about 2004

girls

1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 18,363 of them was named Catelyn, which outranked 90.0% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Catelyn
  1. #1,871Sahara101
  2. #1,871Terra101
  3. #1,871Violeta101
  4. #1,883Catelyn100
  5. #1,883Arriana100
  6. #1,883Aubrianna100
  7. #1,883Deandra100
  8. #1,895Abbigale99
  9. #1,895Amariah99
  10. #1,895Brooklin99

Tied with 11 names at #1,883; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. 948Rubi#1,561#613
  2. 607Kaydence#984#377
  3. 548Marin#1,383#835
  4. 543Diya#1,416#873
  5. 479Kadence#869#390
Fallers
  1. 1,607Arly#949#2,556
  2. 433Shakira#747#1,180
  3. 414Anais#990#1,404
  4. 365Lisbeth#742#1,107
  5. 274Reanna#990#1,264

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2004