Kellyn
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 89.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 97 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,984since 1964
Kellyn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #3,465 | 45 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #3,267 | 50 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #3,010 | 56 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,486 | 38 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,161 | 37 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #2,880 | 41 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,676 | 45 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #3,218 | 35 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,818 | 73 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #1,498 | 86 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,466 | 86 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #1,350 | 97 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kellyn! It came in at #4,636, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kellyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kellyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kellyn
- 4,275 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #10,917)
- 6,037 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #10,917)
- 7,150 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1985 at #1,350 (97 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,740 girls born in 1985 were named Kellyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all girls named Kellyn (571) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 27 | #4,636 (1964) | #5,782 |
| 1970s | 26 | #6,362 (1970) | #7,679 |
| 1980s | 571 | #1,350 (1985) | #2,999 |
| 1990s | 420 | #2,340 (1996) | #2,915 |
| 2000s | 470 | #2,718 (2008) | #3,308 |
| 2010s | 379 | #3,010 (2010) | #4,239 |
| 2020s | 91 | #4,880 (2020) | #7,729 |
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.
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