Acelyn
Acelyn was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,390 among girls’ names; 728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Acelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Acelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Acelyn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Acelyn?
#3,390 among girls’ names, 2025
Acelyn rose from #4,725 in 2015 to #3,390 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 28.0 per million.
52 babies in 2018, the peak
Acelyn peaked in 2018, when 52 girls were given it, #3,107 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,390 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,546 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,294 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,322 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,922 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,107 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,445 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,725 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,101 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,465 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,354 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,219 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,536 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,072 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,541 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,237 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,500 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,717 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,506 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,603 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,568 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,534 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,691 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Acelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 728 Americans recorded as Acelyn, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 45 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Acelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Acelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 723 Americans named Acelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 496 people named Acelyn (448 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,032 babies since 1880, Acelyn is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 135 babies (33%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Acelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Acelyn and names like it
- Compare Acelyn and AcelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Acelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Acelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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