Katelynn
#2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births · Last seen for boys in 1999 at #9,912
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 1,457 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 30,680since 1979
Katelynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Katelynn has never cracked the top 200 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 | #2,719 | 63 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 81 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,510 | 71 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,926 | 102 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,468 | 146 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,274 | 182 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,237 | 188 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,257 | 188 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,049 | 249 | — | |
| 2015 | #652 | 441 | — | |
| 2014 | #566 | 542 | — | |
| 2013 | #487 | 619 | — | |
| 2012 | #427 | 737 | — | |
| 2011 | #380 | 839 | — | |
| 2010 | #312 | 1,028 | — | |
| 2009 | #317 | 1,031 | — | |
| 2008 | #293 | 1,138 | — | |
| 2007 | #283 | 1,206 | — | |
| 2006 | #271 | 1,217 | — | |
| 2005 | #294 | 1,113 | — | |
| 2004 | #255 | 1,269 | — | |
| 2003 | #257 | 1,273 | — | |
| 2002 | #250 | 1,271 | — | |
| 2001 | #248 | 1,293 | — | |
| 2000 | #229 | 1,388 | — | |
| 1999 | #234 | 1,364 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #210 | 1,457 | — | |
| 1997 | #235 | 1,281 | — | |
| 1996 | #224 | 1,284 | — | |
| 1995 | #228 | 1,238 | — | |
| 1994 | #262 | 1,066 | — | |
| 1993 | #235 | 1,194 | — | |
| 1992 | #300 | 927 | — | |
| 1991 | #331 | 800 | — | |
| 1990 | #378 | 695 | — | |
| 1989 | #448 | 543 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #518 | 427 | — | |
| 1987 | #741 | 244 | — | |
| 1986 | #879 | 188 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,269 | 106 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Katelynn! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Katelynn is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#79 · 1 in 203
- Oklahoma#130 · 1 in 581
- Kansas#143 · 1 in 553
- Mississippi#146 · 1 in 594
- Arkansas#151 · 1 in 611
Best ever in a state: #57 in Wyoming, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #79 | 7 | 1 in 203 |
| Oklahoma | #130 | 30 | 1 in 581 |
| Kansas | #143 | 25 | 1 in 553 |
| Mississippi | #146 | 21 | 1 in 594 |
| Arkansas | #151 | 20 | 1 in 611 |
| Kentucky | #165 | 28 | 1 in 722 |
| Tennessee | #179 | 40 | 1 in 805 |
| Montana | #202 | 5 | 1 in 608 |
| Ohio | #212 | 57 | 1 in 989 |
| Missouri | #215 | 31 | 1 in 949 |
| South Dakota | #216 | 5 | 1 in 627 |
| South Carolina | #221 | 20 | 1 in 960 |
| Washington | #228 | 32 | 1 in 1,005 |
| Texas | #229 | 153 | 1 in 1,096 |
| Maine | #232 | 5 | 1 in 824 |
| Indiana | #238 | 30 | 1 in 1,084 |
| Idaho | #245 | 8 | 1 in 921 |
| West Virginia | #247 | 7 | 1 in 984 |
| Iowa | #256 | 13 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Utah | #278 | 17 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Oregon | #285 | 15 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Michigan | #286 | 32 | 1 in 1,389 |
| Louisiana | #296 | 16 | 1 in 1,264 |
| Nebraska | #298 | 8 | 1 in 1,040 |
| Colorado | #303 | 20 | 1 in 1,225 |
| Arizona | #315 | 27 | 1 in 1,352 |
| Pennsylvania | #319 | 35 | 1 in 1,581 |
| Wisconsin | #331 | 16 | 1 in 1,566 |
| Georgia | #335 | 33 | 1 in 1,601 |
| Florida | #352 | 47 | 1 in 1,832 |
| California | #357 | 124 | 1 in 1,850 |
| Alabama | #361 | 13 | 1 in 1,614 |
| North Carolina | #362 | 28 | 1 in 1,717 |
| Virginia | #374 | 21 | 1 in 1,791 |
| New York | #409 | 46 | 1 in 2,077 |
| Illinois | #418 | 31 | 1 in 2,136 |
| Maryland | #434 | 13 | 1 in 1,944 |
| New Jersey | #493 | 16 | 1 in 2,455 |
| Minnesota | #509 | 10 | 1 in 2,576 |
| Massachusetts | #600 | 8 | 1 in 3,403 |
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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 Katelynn
- 437 spots since 2024 (#2,282 → #2,719)
- 1,251 spots since 2020 (#1,468 → #2,719)
- 2,067 spots since 2015 (#652 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 390 spots in 1986 (#1,269 → #879)
- Biggest drop: 397 spots in 2016 (#652 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1998 at #210 (1,457 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1986–2015
- Highest: 1 in 1,213 girls born in 1998 were named Katelynn (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.8% of all girls named Katelynn (12,199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 1,624 | #448 (1989) | #2,810 |
| 1990s | 11,306 | #210 (1998) | #264 |
| 2000s | 12,199 | #229 (2000) | #270 |
| 2010s | 5,013 | #312 (2010) | #764 |
| 2020s | 533 | #1,468 (2020) | #2,237 |
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.
Katelynn in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 1,662 of them was named Katelynn, which outranked 98.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.