Katlyn
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 1,260 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,433since 1979
Katlyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Katlyn 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 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,661 | 66 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,741 | 118 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,536 | 145 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,256 | 195 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,180 | 217 | — | |
| 2007 | #976 | 275 | — | |
| 2006 | #788 | 348 | — | |
| 2005 | #618 | 457 | — | |
| 2004 | #553 | 515 | — | |
| 2003 | #505 | 566 | — | |
| 2002 | #418 | 694 | — | |
| 2001 | #352 | 848 | — | |
| 2000 | #330 | 962 | — | |
| 1999 | #290 | 1,071 | — | |
| 1998 | #262 | 1,183 | — | |
| 1997 | #242 | 1,232 | — | |
| 1996 | #236 | 1,186 | — | |
| 1995 | #223 | 1,260 | — | |
| 1994 | #243 | 1,132 | — | |
| 1993 | #260 | 1,066 | — | |
| 1992 | #296 | 945 | — | |
| 1991 | #312 | 864 | — | |
| 1990 | #343 | 779 | — | |
| 1989 | #400 | 615 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #447 | 505 | — | |
| 1987 | #640 | 294 | — | |
| 1986 | #829 | 201 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,051 | 141 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,565 | 72 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Katlyn! It came in at #8,061, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Katlyn is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#83 · 1 in 318
- Tennessee#101 · 1 in 456
- Kentucky#108 · 1 in 474
- Alabama#110 · 1 in 485
- North Carolina#119 · 1 in 569
Best ever in a state: #77 in West Virginia, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #83 | 23 | 1 in 318 |
| Tennessee | #101 | 67 | 1 in 456 |
| Kentucky | #108 | 43 | 1 in 474 |
| Alabama | #110 | 43 | 1 in 485 |
| North Carolina | #119 | 74 | 1 in 569 |
| Missouri | #133 | 47 | 1 in 632 |
| South Carolina | #139 | 26 | 1 in 646 |
| Maine | #143 | 8 | 1 in 579 |
| Indiana | #156 | 46 | 1 in 719 |
| Oklahoma | #157 | 26 | 1 in 650 |
| Mississippi | #159 | 19 | 1 in 641 |
| Georgia | #171 | 56 | 1 in 795 |
| Delaware | #172 | 5 | 1 in 629 |
| Ohio | #173 | 69 | 1 in 893 |
| Arkansas | #175 | 16 | 1 in 744 |
| Wisconsin | #178 | 29 | 1 in 870 |
| Virginia | #190 | 39 | 1 in 869 |
| Pennsylvania | #192 | 57 | 1 in 1,023 |
| Minnesota | #221 | 22 | 1 in 1,149 |
| Florida | #230 | 65 | 1 in 1,143 |
| Louisiana | #237 | 20 | 1 in 1,093 |
| Kansas | #240 | 12 | 1 in 1,080 |
| Idaho | #246 | 6 | 1 in 983 |
| Nebraska | #249 | 7 | 1 in 1,155 |
| Iowa | #253 | 11 | 1 in 1,278 |
| Michigan | #277 | 34 | 1 in 1,515 |
| Maryland | #324 | 14 | 1 in 1,710 |
| Texas | #327 | 80 | 1 in 1,793 |
| Washington | #347 | 17 | 1 in 1,719 |
| Illinois | #376 | 34 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Oregon | #413 | 8 | 1 in 2,055 |
| New Jersey | #431 | 15 | 1 in 2,766 |
| Utah | #450 | 7 | 1 in 2,360 |
| Connecticut | #462 | 5 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Arizona | #463 | 12 | 1 in 2,434 |
| New York | #484 | 34 | 1 in 2,962 |
| Colorado | #570 | 7 | 1 in 3,180 |
| California | #654 | 52 | 1 in 4,250 |
| Massachusetts | #747 | 5 | 1 in 6,381 |
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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 Katlyn
- 2,919 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,362)
- 591 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #8,362)
- 5,108 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 222 spots in 1986 (#1,051 → #829)
- Biggest drop: 204 spots in 2008 (#976 → #1,180)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1995 at #223 (1,260 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1986–2007
- Highest: 1 in 1,396 girls born in 1995 were named Katlyn (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.1% of all girls named Katlyn (10,718) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,061 |
| 1980s | 1,917 | #400 (1989) | #2,049 |
| 1990s | 10,718 | #223 (1995) | #271 |
| 2000s | 5,077 | #330 (2000) | #698 |
| 2010s | 624 | #1,536 (2010) | #3,514 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,443 (2024) | #7,823 |
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.
Katlyn in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 1,494 of them was named Katlyn, which outranked 98.4% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.