Kellyn

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 89.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1985 · 97 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,984
since 1964

Kellyn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201964peak #1,350, 1985peak #4,804, 2013girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,9178#12,0085
2024#6,64217#12,3495
2023#6,92216#8,9218
2022#8,03213#8,3009
2021#8,97811#8,8258
2020#4,88026#9,5547
2019#4,77328#5,81315
2018#7,40915#8,1549
2017#5,19125#12,2465
2016#4,42332#8,1469
2015#3,76740#8,0409
2014#3,58543#7,04811
2013#3,46545#4,80419
2012#3,26750#8,8648
2011#3,49645#8,7678
2010#3,01056#6,35913
2009#3,46047—
2008#2,71867#9,0198
2007#2,93061#9,7887
2006#3,66942—
2005#3,25747#10,1516
2004#3,26546—
2003#3,34743—
2002#3,97832—
2001#3,48638—
2000#2,97447—
1999#2,85447—
1998#3,42635—
1997#3,16137#8,1106
1996#2,34056#9,0155
1995#2,88041#6,9927
1994#2,75244—
1993#2,67645#6,8167
1992#3,21835#8,4355
1991#2,62046—
1990#3,22734—
1989#1,81873—
1988#1,61480#5,7517
1987#1,49886—
1986#1,46686#5,3327
1985#1,35097—
1984#1,72663#4,9737
1983#2,36040—
1982#3,41824—
1981#4,34417—
1980#10,3925#6,2505
1979#7,3138—
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1970#6,3627—
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1964#4,6369—
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First appearance
1964

The first year at least five girls were named Kellyn! It came in at #4,636, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Kellyn is popular in 1964

No state had 5 or more girls named Kellyn in 1964, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kellyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 4,275 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #10,917)
  • 6,037 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #10,917)
  • 7,150 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1964
  • Peaked 1985 at #1,350 (97 births)
  • Births halved by 1990, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,740
  • Highest: 1 in 17,740 girls born in 1985 were named Kellyn (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 28.8% of all girls named Kellyn (571) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s27#4,636 (1964)#5,782
1970s26#6,362 (1970)#7,679
1980s571#1,350 (1985)#2,999
1990s420#2,340 (1996)#2,915
2000s470#2,718 (2008)#3,308
2010s379#3,010 (2010)#4,239
2020s91#4,880 (2020)#7,729

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.

Kellyn in 1964

girls
#4,636
9 births · 1 in 210,539 girls

Top girls' names in 1964

  1. #1Lisa54,270
  2. #2Mary40,985
  3. #3Susan31,515
  4. #4Karen30,243
  5. #5Patricia26,091
  6. #6Kimberly24,128
  7. #7Donna23,808
  8. #8Linda23,629
  9. #9Cynthia20,321
  10. #10Tammy20,043
  11. #4,636Kellyn9
More about 1964

girls

1,894,855 girls got a published name in 1964; 1 in 210,539 of them was named Kellyn, which outranked 40.6% of the 7,806 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kellyn
  1. #4,355Vondra10
  2. #4,355Zenovia10
  3. #4,355Zeta10
  4. #4,636Kellyn9
  5. #4,636Abra9
  6. #4,636Adelfa9
  7. #4,636Adraine9
  8. #5,008Alandra8
  9. #5,008Aleathia8
  10. #5,008Alfreida8

Tied with 371 names at #4,636; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1963
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,987Anjanette#5,891 → #904
  2. ↑ 2,403Deneen#2,619 → #216
  3. ↑ 2,162Denine#3,066 → #904
  4. ↑ 1,303Daneen#2,211 → #908
  5. ↑ 1,137Kecia#1,754 → #617
Fallers
  1. ↓ 341Leisha#993 → #1,334
  2. ↓ 320Cary#973 → #1,293
  3. ↓ 317Lisha#929 → #1,246
  4. ↓ 281Cecile#973 → #1,254
  5. ↓ 276Alexis#790 → #1,066

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1964 →