Kaylyn
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 462 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,053since 1949
Kaylyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaylyn has never cracked the top 500 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 | #2,514 | 70 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,941 | 101 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,394 | 167 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,266 | 192 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,215 | 201 | — | |
| 2013 | #984 | 255 | — | |
| 2012 | #926 | 277 | — | |
| 2011 | #769 | 354 | — | |
| 2010 | #769 | 356 | — | |
| 2009 | #703 | 413 | — | |
| 2008 | #723 | 411 | — | |
| 2007 | #642 | 462 | — | |
| 2006 | #693 | 409 | — | |
| 2005 | #659 | 420 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #690 | 396 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #651 | 408 | — | |
| 2002 | #600 | 430 | — | |
| 2001 | #644 | 392 | — | |
| 2000 | #589 | 437 | — | |
| 1999 | #568 | 443 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #563 | 437 | — | |
| 1997 | #518 | 462 | — | |
| 1996 | #559 | 419 | — | |
| 1995 | #546 | 436 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #536 | 459 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #590 | 398 | — | |
| 1992 | #595 | 383 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #724 | 287 | — | |
| 1990 | #678 | 315 | — | |
| 1989 | #748 | 263 | — | |
| 1988 | #889 | 197 | — | |
| 1987 | #983 | 160 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,314 | 101 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,632 | 72 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,433 | 38 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaylyn! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kaylyn
- 343 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #2,514)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #2,514)
- 1,248 spots since 2015 (#1,266 → #2,514)
- Biggest jump: 331 spots in 1987 (#1,314 → #983)
- Biggest drop: 231 spots in 2014 (#984 → #1,215)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1997 at #518 (462 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1987–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,768 girls born in 1997 were named Kaylyn (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Kaylyn (4,178) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 35 | #4,300 (1959) | #5,464 |
| 1960s | 131 | #2,789 (1968) | #3,867 |
| 1970s | 125 | #4,041 (1974) | #4,758 |
| 1980s | 941 | #748 (1989) | #2,154 |
| 1990s | 4,039 | #518 (1997) | #588 |
| 2000s | 4,178 | #589 (2000) | #659 |
| 2010s | 2,153 | #769 (2010) | #1,263 |
| 2020s | 446 | #1,991 (2021) | #2,437 |
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.
Kaylyn in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 4,033 of them was named Kaylyn, which outranked 96.5% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 317,284 of them was named Kaylyn, which outranked 24.6% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #6,992Zebediah7
- #6,992Zeno7
- #7,792Kaylyn6
- #7,792Aadam6
- #7,792Aaran6
- #7,792Aaronmichael6
- #8,868Aanand5
- #8,868Aaronn5
- #8,868Aasin5
Tied with 1,075 names at #7,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.