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.
Where Kaylyn is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#576 · 1 in 2,551
- Alabama#672 · 1 in 3,229
- North Carolina#731 · 1 in 3,776
- Louisiana#852 · 1 in 4,197
- Pennsylvania#1,037 · 1 in 6,482
Best ever in a state: #137 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #576 | 7 | 1 in 2,551 |
| Alabama | #672 | 6 | 1 in 3,229 |
| North Carolina | #731 | 12 | 1 in 3,776 |
| Louisiana | #852 | 5 | 1 in 4,197 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,037 | 8 | 1 in 6,482 |
| Georgia | #1,319 | 6 | 1 in 8,008 |
| New York | #1,345 | 10 | 1 in 8,984 |
| Ohio | #1,463 | 5 | 1 in 10,413 |
| California | #1,525 | 17 | 1 in 11,983 |
| Texas | #1,621 | 14 | 1 in 11,950 |
| Florida | #1,630 | 7 | 1 in 12,387 |
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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 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,611 of them was named Kaylyn, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,386Keilani168
- #1,386Nori168
- #1,386Shirley168
- #1,394Kaylyn167
- #1,394Ananya167
- #1,394Andie167
- #1,394Beverly167
- #1,403Chevelle166
- #1,403Elissa166
- #1,403Zahara166
Tied with 8 names at #1,394; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.