Kaelyn
#1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 997 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,566since 1959
Kaelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaelyn has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #1,592 | 131 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,637 | 126 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #1,544 | 138 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,521 | 141 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,223 | 192 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,105 | 221 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | — | |
| 2018 | #948 | 280 | — | |
| 2017 | #819 | 333 | — | |
| 2016 | #726 | 391 | — | |
| 2015 | #521 | 602 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #575 | 533 | — | |
| 2013 | #443 | 692 | — | |
| 2012 | #417 | 754 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #385 | 822 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #339 | 945 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #331 | 997 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #351 | 949 | — | |
| 2007 | #338 | 987 | — | |
| 2006 | #370 | 879 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #520 | 562 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #569 | 502 | — | |
| 2003 | #611 | 438 | — | |
| 2002 | #650 | 389 | — | |
| 2001 | #661 | 380 | — | |
| 2000 | #651 | 380 | — | |
| 1999 | #667 | 343 | — | |
| 1998 | #744 | 292 | — | |
| 1997 | #682 | 316 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #710 | 298 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #682 | 312 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #1,043 | 175 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,374 | 119 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,486 | 106 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,740 | 83 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,586 | 95 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,686 | 81 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,738 | 73 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,932 | 57 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaelyn! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kaelyn
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,637 → #1,592)
- 487 spots since 2020 (#1,105 → #1,592)
- 1,071 spots since 2015 (#521 → #1,592)
- Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1995 (#1,043 → #682)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 2016 (#521 → #726)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2009 at #331 (997 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1995–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,843 girls born in 2009 were named Kaelyn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,269 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.5% of all girls named Kaelyn (6,463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 25 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,968 |
| 1970s | 10 | #8,775 (1974) | #9,493 |
| 1980s | 378 | #1,686 (1989) | #3,296 |
| 1990s | 2,139 | #667 (1999) | #1,071 |
| 2000s | 6,463 | #331 (2009) | #505 |
| 2010s | 5,597 | #339 (2010) | #622 |
| 2020s | 949 | #1,105 (2020) | #1,437 |
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.
Kaelyn in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 5,509 of them was named Kaelyn, which outranked 95.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 314,190 of them was named Kaelyn, which outranked 25.0% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,281Zoey7
- #7,281Zoran7
- #7,281Zyair7
- #8,110Kaelyn6
- #8,110Aaditya6
- #8,110Aaric6
- #8,110Aashish6
- #9,265Aadam5
- #9,265Aaran5
- #9,265Aarik5
Tied with 1,154 names at #8,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.