Kailyn
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 793 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,211since 1981
Kailyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailyn 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 | #1,818 | 110 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #1,439 | 155 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #1,422 | 158 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #1,280 | 180 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #1,196 | 193 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,036 | 247 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #992 | 264 | — | |
| 2017 | #899 | 298 | — | |
| 2016 | #801 | 355 | — | |
| 2015 | #659 | 436 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #512 | 606 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #492 | 609 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #493 | 623 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #397 | 793 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #443 | 696 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #447 | 706 | — | |
| 2008 | #446 | 706 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #491 | 663 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #492 | 626 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #511 | 583 | — | |
| 2004 | #533 | 533 | — | |
| 2003 | #552 | 499 | — | |
| 2002 | #589 | 438 | — | |
| 2001 | #627 | 399 | — | |
| 2000 | #593 | 431 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #619 | 389 | — | |
| 1998 | #649 | 355 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #704 | 306 | — | |
| 1996 | #715 | 295 | — | |
| 1995 | #806 | 246 | — | |
| 1994 | #819 | 246 | — | |
| 1993 | #908 | 212 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,113 | 160 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,358 | 120 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,605 | 93 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,435 | 103 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,788 | 70 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,962 | 57 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,470 | 40 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailyn! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kailyn
- 239 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,818)
- 622 spots since 2020 (#1,196 → #1,818)
- 1,159 spots since 2015 (#659 → #1,818)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 1993 (#1,113 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 147 spots in 2015 (#512 → #659)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2011 at #397 (793 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1993–2018
- Highest: 1 in 2,218 girls born in 2011 were named Kailyn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Kailyn (5,584) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 349 | #1,435 (1989) | #3,839 |
| 1990s | 2,422 | #619 (1999) | #930 |
| 2000s | 5,584 | #446 (2008) | #528 |
| 2010s | 4,927 | #397 (2011) | #672 |
| 2020s | 929 | #1,196 (2020) | #1,456 |
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.
Kailyn in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 17,899 of them was named Kailyn, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,426Mica104
- #1,426Raechel104
- #1,426Vera104
- #1,435Kailyn103
- #1,435Alora103
- #1,435Kalli103
- #1,435Kera103
- #1,444Chanda102
- #1,444Corrina102
- #1,444Diandra102
Tied with 8 names at #1,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.