Kaylin
Kaylin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 155 births. Its best rank was 371st, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1550.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2008869 births
- Best rank
- #371in 2009
- Since 1953
- 19,798people given the name
The story in the numbers
19,178 girls have been named Kaylin in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 869 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 38%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 620 boys have also been given it, 3.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Kaylin was the 377th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Kaylin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adriannapeak 2007
- Allipeak 2011
- Shaylynnpeak 2009
- Alleypeak 2006
- Kayliepeak 2006
- Jazmynpeak 2005
- Deziraepeak 2006
- Cayliepeak 2009
Other spellings in the data
- Kailyn14,098 ever
- Kaylynn12,112 ever
- Kaylyn11,982 ever
- Cailyn5,509 ever
- Kailynn4,654 ever
- Cailin3,706 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.