Kaylyn
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 462 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,053since 1949
Kaylyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Kaylyn has never cracked the top 500 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 | #2,514 | 70 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,941 | 101 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,394 | 167 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,266 | 192 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,215 | 201 | — | |
| 2013 | #984 | 255 | — | |
| 2012 | #926 | 277 | — | |
| 2011 | #769 | 354 | — | |
| 2010 | #769 | 356 | — | |
| 2009 | #703 | 413 | — | |
| 2008 | #723 | 411 | — | |
| 2007 | #642 | 462 | — | |
| 2006 | #693 | 409 | — | |
| 2005 | #659 | 420 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #690 | 396 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #651 | 408 | — | |
| 2002 | #600 | 430 | — | |
| 2001 | #644 | 392 | — | |
| 2000 | #589 | 437 | — | |
| 1999 | #568 | 443 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #563 | 437 | — | |
| 1997 | #518 | 462 | — | |
| 1996 | #559 | 419 | — | |
| 1995 | #546 | 436 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #536 | 459 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #590 | 398 | — | |
| 1992 | #595 | 383 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #724 | 287 | — | |
| 1990 | #678 | 315 | — | |
| 1989 | #748 | 263 | — | |
| 1988 | #889 | 197 | — | |
| 1987 | #983 | 160 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,314 | 101 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,632 | 72 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,433 | 38 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaylyn! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaylyn is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#215 · 1 in 1,167
- Hawaii#219 · 1 in 779
- Kentucky#222 · 1 in 1,333
- Colorado#290 · 1 in 1,556
- Indiana#300 · 1 in 1,725
Best ever in a state: #137 in Hawaii, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #215 | 18 | 1 in 1,167 |
| Hawaii | #219 | 6 | 1 in 779 |
| Kentucky | #222 | 15 | 1 in 1,333 |
| Colorado | #290 | 13 | 1 in 1,556 |
| Indiana | #300 | 19 | 1 in 1,725 |
| Michigan | #302 | 27 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Iowa | #316 | 7 | 1 in 2,038 |
| Oklahoma | #328 | 9 | 1 in 1,799 |
| South Carolina | #336 | 8 | 1 in 2,073 |
| Missouri | #338 | 13 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Ohio | #367 | 25 | 1 in 2,587 |
| Mississippi | #385 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| North Carolina | #395 | 14 | 1 in 2,725 |
| Wisconsin | #397 | 10 | 1 in 2,631 |
| Arkansas | #398 | 5 | 1 in 2,281 |
| Georgia | #400 | 15 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Louisiana | #406 | 10 | 1 in 2,242 |
| Virginia | #410 | 13 | 1 in 2,713 |
| Massachusetts | #416 | 11 | 1 in 3,075 |
| Florida | #478 | 23 | 1 in 3,240 |
| Pennsylvania | #518 | 16 | 1 in 4,059 |
| Oregon | #546 | 5 | 1 in 3,206 |
| Minnesota | #582 | 5 | 1 in 5,124 |
| Illinois | #616 | 17 | 1 in 4,367 |
| Tennessee | #637 | 6 | 1 in 4,870 |
| Texas | #670 | 29 | 1 in 4,689 |
| Washington | #697 | 6 | 1 in 4,816 |
| California | #704 | 47 | 1 in 5,160 |
| New York | #909 | 15 | 1 in 7,415 |
| New Jersey | #962 | 5 | 1 in 8,804 |
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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 Kaylyn
- 343 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #2,514)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #2,514)
- 1,248 spots since 2015 (#1,266 → #2,514)
- Biggest jump: 331 spots in 1987 (#1,314 → #983)
- Biggest drop: 231 spots in 2014 (#984 → #1,215)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1997 at #518 (462 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1987–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,768 girls born in 1997 were named Kaylyn (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Kaylyn (4,178) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 35 | #4,300 (1959) | #5,464 |
| 1960s | 131 | #2,789 (1968) | #3,867 |
| 1970s | 125 | #4,041 (1974) | #4,758 |
| 1980s | 941 | #748 (1989) | #2,154 |
| 1990s | 4,039 | #518 (1997) | #588 |
| 2000s | 4,178 | #589 (2000) | #659 |
| 2010s | 2,153 | #769 (2010) | #1,263 |
| 2020s | 446 | #1,991 (2021) | #2,437 |
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.
Kaylyn in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 3,891 of them was named Kaylyn, which outranked 96.6% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 386,406 of them was named Kaylyn, which outranked 14.1% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,445 names at #8,800; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.