Kaelyn
#1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 997 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,566since 1959
Kaelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaelyn has never cracked the top 300 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 | #1,592 | 131 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,637 | 126 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #1,544 | 138 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,521 | 141 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,223 | 192 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,105 | 221 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | — | |
| 2018 | #948 | 280 | — | |
| 2017 | #819 | 333 | — | |
| 2016 | #726 | 391 | — | |
| 2015 | #521 | 602 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #575 | 533 | — | |
| 2013 | #443 | 692 | — | |
| 2012 | #417 | 754 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #385 | 822 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #339 | 945 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #331 | 997 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #351 | 949 | — | |
| 2007 | #338 | 987 | — | |
| 2006 | #370 | 879 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #520 | 562 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #569 | 502 | — | |
| 2003 | #611 | 438 | — | |
| 2002 | #650 | 389 | — | |
| 2001 | #661 | 380 | — | |
| 2000 | #651 | 380 | — | |
| 1999 | #667 | 343 | — | |
| 1998 | #744 | 292 | — | |
| 1997 | #682 | 316 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #710 | 298 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #682 | 312 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #1,043 | 175 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,374 | 119 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,486 | 106 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,740 | 83 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,586 | 95 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,686 | 81 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,738 | 73 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,932 | 57 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaelyn! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaelyn is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#339 · 1 in 2,182
- Nevada#370 · 1 in 1,650
- Connecticut#376 · 1 in 2,330
- Oregon#432 · 1 in 2,379
- Mississippi#447 · 1 in 2,321
Best ever in a state: #95 in New Hampshire, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #339 | 9 | 1 in 2,182 |
| Nevada | #370 | 5 | 1 in 1,650 |
| Connecticut | #376 | 7 | 1 in 2,330 |
| Oregon | #432 | 7 | 1 in 2,379 |
| Mississippi | #447 | 5 | 1 in 2,321 |
| Washington | #492 | 10 | 1 in 2,854 |
| Maryland | #496 | 8 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Virginia | #527 | 9 | 1 in 3,794 |
| Ohio | #554 | 15 | 1 in 4,141 |
| Indiana | #566 | 8 | 1 in 4,112 |
| Tennessee | #575 | 7 | 1 in 4,231 |
| Missouri | #588 | 7 | 1 in 4,221 |
| Michigan | #601 | 12 | 1 in 4,337 |
| Minnesota | #615 | 5 | 1 in 4,972 |
| Texas | #656 | 32 | 1 in 4,361 |
| Pennsylvania | #660 | 11 | 1 in 5,504 |
| Louisiana | #665 | 5 | 1 in 4,310 |
| Florida | #684 | 14 | 1 in 5,195 |
| Illinois | #701 | 14 | 1 in 5,104 |
| Georgia | #703 | 8 | 1 in 5,189 |
| Massachusetts | #705 | 5 | 1 in 6,440 |
| Arizona | #846 | 5 | 1 in 5,694 |
| California | #888 | 33 | 1 in 6,963 |
| North Carolina | #915 | 5 | 1 in 7,870 |
| New York | #1,296 | 9 | 1 in 11,592 |
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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 Kaelyn
- 45 spots since 2024 (#1,637 → #1,592)
- 487 spots since 2020 (#1,105 → #1,592)
- 1,071 spots since 2015 (#521 → #1,592)
- Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1995 (#1,043 → #682)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 2016 (#521 → #726)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2009 at #331 (997 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1995–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,843 girls born in 2009 were named Kaelyn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,269 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.5% of all girls named Kaelyn (6,463) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 25 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,968 |
| 1970s | 10 | #8,775 (1974) | #9,493 |
| 1980s | 378 | #1,686 (1989) | #3,296 |
| 1990s | 2,139 | #667 (1999) | #1,071 |
| 2000s | 6,463 | #331 (2009) | #505 |
| 2010s | 5,597 | #339 (2010) | #622 |
| 2020s | 949 | #1,105 (2020) | #1,437 |
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.
Kaelyn in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 5,883 of them was named Kaelyn, which outranked 95.5% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 189,430 of them was named Kaelyn, which outranked 47.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,187Zayn11
- #5,187Zeeshan11
- #5,187Zerek11
- #5,535Kaelyn10
- #5,535Aaronmichael10
- #5,535Acie10
- #5,535Afton10
- #5,982Aadil9
- #5,982Aarion9
- #5,982Abdias9
Tied with 446 names at #5,535; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.