Kaylyn
Kaylyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 519th, in 1997.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 580.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1997462 births
- Best rank
- #519in 1997
- Since 1949
- 11,982people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,982 girls have been named Kaylyn in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 462 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 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 35%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Kaylyn was the 519th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1997 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Hannah. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Kaylyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jazminepeak 2006
- Kaylepeak 2000
- Kaleighpeak 2001
- Kalynnpeak 2008
- Alexipeak 2002
- Ashlanpeak 2009
- Kaeleepeak 2000
- Klarissapeak 1998
Other spellings in the data
- Kaylin19,798 ever
- Kailyn14,098 ever
- Kaylynn12,112 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.