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.
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.
Kellyn in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 19,948 of them was named Kellyn, which outranked 88.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,459Juliann87
- #1,459Shantae87
- #1,459Zachary87
- #1,466Kellyn86
- #1,466Gabriel86
- #1,466Hali86
- #1,466Jeannine86
- #1,472Anisha85
- #1,472Annalisa85
- #1,472Benjamin85
Tied with 5 names at #1,466; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 263,074 of them was named Kellyn, which outranked 31.9% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,853Zenon8
- #4,853Zohaib8
- #4,853Zuriel8
- #5,332Kellyn7
- #5,332Aaren7
- #5,332Abdurrahman7
- #5,332Abed7
- #5,926Aaric6
- #5,926Aarin6
- #5,926Abayomi6
Tied with 593 names at #5,332; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.