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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#336 · 1 in 1,233
- Kentucky#508 · 1 in 2,282
- South Carolina#576 · 1 in 2,551
- Tennessee#759 · 1 in 3,880
- Ohio#765 · 1 in 4,339
Best ever in a state: #100 in North Dakota, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #336 | 9 | 1 in 1,233 |
| Kentucky | #508 | 8 | 1 in 2,282 |
| South Carolina | #576 | 7 | 1 in 2,551 |
| Tennessee | #759 | 8 | 1 in 3,880 |
| Ohio | #765 | 12 | 1 in 4,339 |
| Michigan | #915 | 8 | 1 in 5,259 |
| Texas | #1,127 | 23 | 1 in 7,274 |
| North Carolina | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 7,552 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,261 | 6 | 1 in 8,642 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Illinois | #1,607 | 5 | 1 in 11,525 |
| New York | #1,916 | 6 | 1 in 14,973 |
| Florida | #2,072 | 5 | 1 in 17,342 |
| California | #2,306 | 9 | 1 in 22,635 |
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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 Kaitlynn
- 186 spots since 2024 (#3,459 → #3,645)
- 1,721 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #3,645)
- 2,656 spots since 2015 (#989 → #3,645)
- Biggest jump: 437 spots in 1988 (#1,433 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 382 spots in 2016 (#989 → #1,371)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Kaitlynn in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,363 of them was named Kaitlynn, which outranked 92.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,368Haleigh172
- #1,368Hillary172
- #1,368Yaretzy172
- #1,371Kaitlynn171
- #1,371Araya171
- #1,371Carley171
- #1,371Dariana171
- #1,380Gretchen170
- #1,380Miyah170
- #1,380Raleigh170
Tied with 8 names at #1,371; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.