Kaylin
#1,643 for girls in 2025, 126 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 96.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 866 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,307since 1953
Kaylin over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaylin 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,643 | 126 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #1,425 | 156 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,500 | 144 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #1,251 | 192 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,138 | 216 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #1,145 | 207 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #994 | 260 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #937 | 285 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #932 | 283 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #796 | 357 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #618 | 467 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #545 | 567 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #459 | 664 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #468 | 666 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #409 | 772 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #396 | 807 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #371 | 866 | #4,429 | 22 |
| 2008 | #377 | 869 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #379 | 868 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #402 | 799 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #416 | 751 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #436 | 699 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #442 | 677 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #478 | 587 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #445 | 625 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #449 | 632 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #444 | 602 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #441 | 586 | #2,851 | 28 |
| 1997 | #432 | 593 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #483 | 496 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #467 | 541 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #532 | 462 | #2,766 | 26 |
| 1993 | #568 | 419 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #677 | 324 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #704 | 301 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #718 | 292 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #781 | 247 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #858 | 208 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #986 | 159 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #1,304 | 102 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,401 | 91 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,583 | 71 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaylin! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaylin is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#727 · 1 in 3,467
- Louisiana#738 · 1 in 3,101
- Georgia#791 · 1 in 3,774
- Virginia#791 · 1 in 3,842
- Ohio#840 · 1 in 4,419
Best ever in a state: #139 in Hawaii, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #727 | 13 | 1 in 3,467 |
| Louisiana | #738 | 6 | 1 in 3,101 |
| Georgia | #791 | 12 | 1 in 3,774 |
| Virginia | #791 | 9 | 1 in 3,842 |
| Ohio | #840 | 11 | 1 in 4,419 |
| Texas | #903 | 32 | 1 in 4,859 |
| Maryland | #914 | 5 | 1 in 4,424 |
| New Jersey | #932 | 7 | 1 in 5,204 |
| Missouri | #948 | 5 | 1 in 4,946 |
| Pennsylvania | #950 | 9 | 1 in 5,420 |
| Tennessee | #990 | 6 | 1 in 5,204 |
| New York | #1,145 | 12 | 1 in 6,771 |
| Florida | #1,196 | 11 | 1 in 7,600 |
| California | #1,325 | 19 | 1 in 9,186 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kaylin
- 218 spots since 2024 (#1,425 → #1,643)
- 498 spots since 2020 (#1,145 → #1,643)
- 1,025 spots since 2015 (#618 → #1,643)
- Biggest jump: 318 spots in 1987 (#1,304 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 178 spots in 2016 (#618 → #796)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2009 at #371 (866 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1987–2019
- Highest: 1 in 2,121 girls born in 2009 were named Kaylin (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,756 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.2% of all girls named Kaylin (7,373) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,325 (1956) | #5,499 |
| 1960s | 65 | #3,958 (1969) | #5,140 |
| 1970s | 69 | #4,626 (1979) | #6,464 |
| 1980s | 1,004 | #781 (1989) | #2,045 |
| 1990s | 4,616 | #432 (1997) | #547 |
| 2000s | 7,373 | #371 (2009) | #420 |
| 2010s | 5,128 | #396 (2010) | #655 |
| 2020s | 1,041 | #1,138 (2021) | #1,350 |
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.
Kaylin in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,597 of them was named Kaylin, which outranked 93.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,135Leena217
- #1,135Lizbeth217
- #1,135Queen217
- #1,138Kaylin216
- #1,138Agnes216
- #1,138Christine216
- #1,138Karlee216
- #1,143Amethyst215
- #1,143Ciara215
- #1,143Jubilee215
Tied with 4 names at #1,138; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 116,632 of them was named Kaylin, which outranked 59.0% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,562Zayveon16
- #5,562Zebulun16
- #5,562Zlatan16
- #5,776Kaylin15
- #5,776Aarnav15
- #5,776Adom15
- #5,776Adrion15
- #6,032Abdulla14
- #6,032Abhimanyu14
- #6,032Aceion14
Tied with 255 names at #5,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.