Katelyn
#1,076 for girls in 2025, 225 births · Last seen for boys in 2013 at #12,136
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 5,441 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 22 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 134,049since 1970
Katelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,076 | 225 | — | |
| 2024 | #926 | 286 | — | |
| 2023 | #850 | 315 | — | |
| 2022 | #901 | 309 | — | |
| 2021 | #761 | 376 | — | |
| 2020 | #676 | 420 | — | |
| 2019 | #531 | 576 | — | |
| 2018 | #503 | 619 | — | |
| 2017 | #413 | 768 | — | |
| 2016 | #376 | 871 | — | |
| 2015 | #239 | 1,385 | — | |
| 2014 | #172 | 1,924 | — | |
| 2013 | #143 | 2,149 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #132 | 2,416 | — | |
| 2011 | #106 | 2,842 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #103 | 2,959 | — | |
| 2009 | #90 | 3,571 | — | |
| 2008 | #80 | 3,976 | — | |
| 2007 | #75 | 4,259 | — | |
| 2006 | #61 | 4,890 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #59 | 4,928 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #59 | 4,952 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #58 | 5,054 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #53 | 5,267 | — | |
| 2001 | #52 | 5,441 | — | |
| 2000 | #54 | 5,502 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #55 | 5,309 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #58 | 5,367 | — | |
| 1997 | #63 | 5,156 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #64 | 5,421 | — | |
| 1995 | #59 | 5,573 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #58 | 5,670 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #54 | 5,975 | — | |
| 1992 | #65 | 5,291 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #75 | 4,560 | — | |
| 1990 | #75 | 4,489 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #76 | 4,036 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #84 | 3,510 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #127 | 2,219 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #149 | 1,939 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #191 | 1,419 | — | |
| 1984 | #332 | 702 | — | |
| 1983 | #471 | 424 | — | |
| 1982 | #717 | 242 | — | |
| 1981 | #964 | 152 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,068 | 132 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Katelyn! It came in at #5,413, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Katelyn is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#218 · 1 in 834
- Arkansas#234 · 1 in 847
- Mississippi#306 · 1 in 1,075
- Alabama#375 · 1 in 1,439
- Georgia#377 · 1 in 1,595
Best ever in a state: #17 in Alaska, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #218 | 20 | 1 in 834 |
| Arkansas | #234 | 13 | 1 in 847 |
| Mississippi | #306 | 10 | 1 in 1,075 |
| Alabama | #375 | 13 | 1 in 1,439 |
| Georgia | #377 | 29 | 1 in 1,595 |
| Washington | #387 | 18 | 1 in 1,689 |
| Kansas | #390 | 8 | 1 in 1,507 |
| Ohio | #405 | 28 | 1 in 1,822 |
| Pennsylvania | #416 | 27 | 1 in 1,863 |
| Virginia | #417 | 20 | 1 in 1,797 |
| Illinois | #428 | 28 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Kentucky | #431 | 10 | 1 in 1,774 |
| Iowa | #441 | 7 | 1 in 1,754 |
| California | #455 | 84 | 1 in 2,256 |
| Oregon | #479 | 7 | 1 in 1,999 |
| New York | #490 | 36 | 1 in 2,408 |
| Arizona | #503 | 13 | 1 in 2,261 |
| Indiana | #509 | 13 | 1 in 2,286 |
| Tennessee | #524 | 14 | 1 in 2,227 |
| South Carolina | #527 | 8 | 1 in 2,210 |
| North Carolina | #534 | 18 | 1 in 2,501 |
| Michigan | #539 | 16 | 1 in 2,515 |
| Wisconsin | #544 | 9 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Texas | #572 | 56 | 1 in 2,838 |
| New Jersey | #605 | 12 | 1 in 2,994 |
| Missouri | #614 | 9 | 1 in 2,944 |
| Minnesota | #637 | 8 | 1 in 2,936 |
| Florida | #639 | 26 | 1 in 3,273 |
| Louisiana | #648 | 7 | 1 in 2,798 |
| Colorado | #675 | 7 | 1 in 3,181 |
| Massachusetts | #727 | 6 | 1 in 4,101 |
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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 Katelyn
- 150 spots since 2024 (#926 → #1,076)
- 400 spots since 2020 (#676 → #1,076)
- 837 spots since 2015 (#239 → #1,076)
- Biggest jump: 247 spots in 1982 (#964 → #717)
- Biggest drop: 150 spots in 2025 (#926 → #1,076)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2001 at #52 (5,441 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 22 yrs · run 1988–2009
- Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1981–2024
- Highest: 1 in 303 girls born in 1993 were named Katelyn (0.33%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,143 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #52 in 2001, was only 1 in 331 (0.30%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.4% of all girls named Katelyn (52,811) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 183 | #1,731 (1979) | #5,231 |
| 1980s | 14,775 | #76 (1989) | #418 |
| 1990s | 52,811 | #54 (1993) | #63 |
| 2000s | 47,840 | #52 (2001) | #64 |
| 2010s | 16,509 | #103 (2010) | #272 |
| 2020s | 1,931 | #676 (2020) | #865 |
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.
Katelyn in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 2,748 of them was named Katelyn, which outranked 97.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.