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Kellyn

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Kellyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
170.00% of girls
Peak year
198597 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1964
2,196people given the name
Babies named Kellyn, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,976 girls have been named Kellyn in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 97 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 1998, and the 1980s alone account for 29%.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 220 boys have also been given it, 10% of the total.

By decade

Decadegirls named Kellyn
1960s27
1970s26
1980s571
1990s420
2000s470
2010s379
2020s83

In 1985, its biggest year

Kellyn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.

Names that rose and fell with Kellyn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.