Kalyn
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 95.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 350 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,412since 1956
Kalyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kalyn has never cracked the top 600 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 | #6,116 | 19 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,351 | 78 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #1,990 | 98 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,690 | 124 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #1,367 | 170 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #1,174 | 214 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #1,207 | 211 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #1,189 | 213 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #1,120 | 223 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #1,032 | 234 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #982 | 242 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #1,008 | 229 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #925 | 240 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #860 | 256 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #838 | 258 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #812 | 262 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #785 | 265 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #773 | 271 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #754 | 270 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #628 | 350 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #633 | 354 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #759 | 275 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #759 | 271 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #849 | 231 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #825 | 230 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #872 | 202 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #920 | 180 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #1,136 | 127 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #1,350 | 97 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,355 | 88 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #1,565 | 71 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,069 | 28 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalyn! It came in at #5,325, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kalyn
- 317 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #6,116)
- 1,359 spots since 2020 (#4,757 → #6,116)
- 3,765 spots since 2015 (#2,351 → #6,116)
- Biggest jump: 216 spots in 1987 (#1,136 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 126 spots in 1995 (#628 → #754)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1994 at #628 (350 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1987–2002
- Highest: 1 in 5,102 girls born in 1994 were named Kalyn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.9% of all girls named Kalyn (2,807) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #3,747 (1958) | #4,536 |
| 1960s | 115 | #3,050 (1965) | #3,875 |
| 1970s | 135 | #3,373 (1971) | #4,810 |
| 1980s | 1,111 | #825 (1989) | #1,562 |
| 1990s | 2,807 | #628 (1994) | #759 |
| 2000s | 2,304 | #860 (2000) | #1,042 |
| 2010s | 804 | #1,367 (2010) | #2,691 |
| 2020s | 119 | #4,757 (2020) | #6,314 |
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.
Kalyn in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 6,875 of them was named Kalyn, which outranked 95.1% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 174,559 of them was named Kalyn, which outranked 51.3% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,317Zakk12
- #5,317Zamar12
- #5,317Zaven12
- #5,656Kalyn11
- #5,656Aaran11
- #5,656Aarion11
- #5,656Adeeb11
- #6,042Abdon10
- #6,042Abdulkareem10
- #6,042Abdurahman10
Tied with 385 names at #5,656; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.