Kaitlynn
- #3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births
- Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
- Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 809 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,419since 1982
Kaitlynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaitlynn 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 | #3,645 | 41 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,459 | 45 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,720 | 63 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,833 | 111 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,524 | 145 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,371 | 171 | — | |
| 2015 | #989 | 273 | — | |
| 2014 | #929 | 290 | — | |
| 2013 | #842 | 312 | — | |
| 2012 | #695 | 404 | — | |
| 2011 | #732 | 377 | — | |
| 2010 | #715 | 395 | — | |
| 2009 | #634 | 471 | — | |
| 2008 | #544 | 565 | — | |
| 2007 | #497 | 651 | — | |
| 2006 | #527 | 574 | — | |
| 2005 | #476 | 647 | — | |
| 2004 | #453 | 670 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #440 | 680 | — | |
| 2002 | #399 | 731 | — | |
| 2001 | #368 | 808 | — | |
| 2000 | #368 | 801 | — | |
| 1999 | #361 | 822 | — | |
| 1998 | #356 | 809 | — | |
| 1997 | #366 | 754 | — | |
| 1996 | #365 | 745 | — | |
| 1995 | #378 | 698 | — | |
| 1994 | #413 | 602 | — | |
| 1993 | #420 | 595 | — | |
| 1992 | #452 | 551 | — | |
| 1991 | #619 | 364 | — | |
| 1990 | #655 | 340 | — | |
| 1989 | #785 | 246 | — | |
| 1988 | #996 | 165 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 | — | |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaitlynn! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaitlynn is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Arizona | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 5,644 |
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See more about Kaitlynn
- 1,721 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #3,645)
- Biggest jump: 437 spots in 1988
- Biggest drop: 382 spots in 2016
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1998 at #356 (809 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1988–2015
- Highest: 1 in 2,158 girls born in 1999 were named Kaitlynn (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #356 in 1998, was only 1 in 2,184 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.2% of all girls named Kaitlynn (6,598) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 609 | #785 (1989) | #3,343 |
| 1990s | 6,280 | #356 (1998) | #439 |
| 2000s | 6,598 | #368 (2001) | #471 |
| 2010s | 2,587 | #695 (2012) | #1,148 |
| 2020s | 345 | #1,924 (2020) | #3,065 |
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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