Kaylyn
Where Kaylyn comes from
20th-century coinage from Kay + -lyn.
Along the way
- 1949First appearance#5,244 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1997Peak, #518462 babies named Kaylyn — more than any year before or since.
- 2014The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,215.
In the dictionary
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
No widely known Kaylyn turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.