Kailyn
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 793 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,211since 1981
Kailyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailyn 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,818 | 110 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #1,439 | 155 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #1,422 | 158 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #1,280 | 180 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #1,196 | 193 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,036 | 247 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #992 | 264 | — | |
| 2017 | #899 | 298 | — | |
| 2016 | #801 | 355 | — | |
| 2015 | #659 | 436 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #512 | 606 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #492 | 609 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #493 | 623 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #397 | 793 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #443 | 696 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #447 | 706 | — | |
| 2008 | #446 | 706 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #491 | 663 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #492 | 626 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #511 | 583 | — | |
| 2004 | #533 | 533 | — | |
| 2003 | #552 | 499 | — | |
| 2002 | #589 | 438 | — | |
| 2001 | #627 | 399 | — | |
| 2000 | #593 | 431 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #619 | 389 | — | |
| 1998 | #649 | 355 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #704 | 306 | — | |
| 1996 | #715 | 295 | — | |
| 1995 | #806 | 246 | — | |
| 1994 | #819 | 246 | — | |
| 1993 | #908 | 212 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,113 | 160 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,358 | 120 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,605 | 93 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,435 | 103 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,788 | 70 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,962 | 57 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,470 | 40 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailyn! It came in at #9,110, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Kailyn is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#144 · 1 in 574
- Alabama#214 · 1 in 889
- West Virginia#217 · 1 in 829
- South Carolina#247 · 1 in 1,030
- Connecticut#269 · 1 in 1,067
Best ever in a state: #101 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #144 | 19 | 1 in 574 |
| Alabama | #214 | 21 | 1 in 889 |
| West Virginia | #217 | 8 | 1 in 829 |
| South Carolina | #247 | 17 | 1 in 1,030 |
| Connecticut | #269 | 11 | 1 in 1,067 |
| Georgia | #340 | 29 | 1 in 1,605 |
| Massachusetts | #344 | 16 | 1 in 1,586 |
| Louisiana | #346 | 14 | 1 in 1,439 |
| Virginia | #350 | 23 | 1 in 1,578 |
| Ohio | #354 | 31 | 1 in 1,697 |
| North Carolina | #385 | 25 | 1 in 1,772 |
| Michigan | #420 | 21 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Iowa | #429 | 7 | 1 in 1,824 |
| Texas | #444 | 73 | 1 in 2,205 |
| Tennessee | #461 | 14 | 1 in 2,124 |
| New Jersey | #477 | 16 | 1 in 2,281 |
| Florida | #498 | 31 | 1 in 2,618 |
| Illinois | #501 | 23 | 1 in 2,520 |
| Pennsylvania | #519 | 19 | 1 in 2,741 |
| New York | #527 | 34 | 1 in 2,684 |
| Wisconsin | #579 | 8 | 1 in 2,884 |
| Maryland | #598 | 8 | 1 in 2,940 |
| Kansas | #607 | 5 | 1 in 2,574 |
| Indiana | #612 | 10 | 1 in 2,984 |
| Kentucky | #618 | 6 | 1 in 3,083 |
| Missouri | #656 | 8 | 1 in 3,377 |
| Oregon | #658 | 5 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Colorado | #684 | 7 | 1 in 3,246 |
| California | #690 | 52 | 1 in 3,946 |
| Minnesota | #749 | 6 | 1 in 4,027 |
| Arizona | #853 | 7 | 1 in 4,389 |
| Washington | #905 | 6 | 1 in 4,970 |
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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 Kailyn
- 239 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,818)
- 622 spots since 2020 (#1,196 → #1,818)
- 1,159 spots since 2015 (#659 → #1,818)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 1993 (#1,113 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 147 spots in 2015 (#512 → #659)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2011 at #397 (793 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1993–2018
- Highest: 1 in 2,218 girls born in 2011 were named Kailyn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Kailyn (5,584) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 349 | #1,435 (1989) | #3,839 |
| 1990s | 2,422 | #619 (1999) | #930 |
| 2000s | 5,584 | #446 (2008) | #528 |
| 2010s | 4,927 | #397 (2011) | #672 |
| 2020s | 929 | #1,196 (2020) | #1,456 |
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.
Kailyn in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 2,881 of them was named Kailyn, which outranked 97.4% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 315,264 of them was named Kailyn, which outranked 23.8% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,655Zyhaire7
- #9,655Zyheir7
- #9,655Zykeem7
- #10,728Kailyn6
- #10,728Aadin6
- #10,728Aahaan6
- #10,728Aansh6
- #12,136Aaqil5
- #12,136Aashish5
- #12,136Aashman5
Tied with 1,407 names at #10,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.