Carlyn

Where Carlyn comes from

Carlyn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,932 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Carlyn Kruger born
    Canadian alpine skier
  3. 1943
    Peak, #952
    68 babies named Carlyn — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1951
    Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen born
    British noble
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,939.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carlyn Kruger · Canadian alpine skier, born 1936
  • Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen · British noble, born 1951
  • Carlyn Baldwin · American soccer player, born 1996
  • Carlyn Fischer · South African athletics competitor, born 1990

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.