Kailin
- #7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
- Given to girls 86.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 57 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,221since 1981
Kailin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #7,133 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #3,241 | 43 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,632 | 56 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #2,328 | 57 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,880 | 41 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1981
The first year at least five girls were named Kailin! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kailin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Kailin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kailin
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 491 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #7,133)
- 836 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #7,133)
- 1,097 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #7,133)
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1997 at #2,328 (57 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 30,539
- Highest: 1 in 30,539 girls born in 1997 were named Kailin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 35.7% of all girls named Kailin (436) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 99 | #3,402 (1989) | #7,267 |
| 1990s | 362 | #2,328 (1997) | #3,361 |
| 2000s | 436 | #2,632 (2000) | #3,586 |
| 2010s | 234 | #3,816 (2010) | #6,150 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,309 (2022) | #7,608 |
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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