Acelynn
Acelynn was given to 90 girls in 2025, #2,076 among girls’ names; 1,304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Acelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Acelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Acelynn?
#2,076 among girls’ names, 2025
Acelynn rose from #2,431 in 2015 to #2,076 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 42.0 to 56.0 per million.
94 babies in 2014, the peak
Acelynn peaked in 2014, when 94 girls were given it, #2,071 among girls’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,076 | 56.0 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,203 | 53.1 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,517 | 43.6 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,142 | 54.3 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,510 | 42.7 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,779 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,250 | 48.3 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,647 | 38.2 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,487 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,936 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #2,431 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 94 | #2,071 | 52.6 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,122 | 50.7 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,934 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,781 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,022 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,459 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,350 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,811 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,287 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,501 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,827 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,414 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,196 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,023 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,024 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,801 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Acelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Acelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Acelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Acelynn, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,304 Americans ever recorded as Acelynn. The median Acelynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 664 people named Acelynn (654 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 849 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 991 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Acelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Acelynn are Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,406 | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #535 | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,128 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 5 | #819 | 0.5× |
Where Acelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Acelynn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1999 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Acelynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,032 babies since 1880, Acelynn is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 135 babies (67%), again the 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 Acelynn
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 Acelynn and names like it
- Compare Acelynn and AcelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAcelynn peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Acelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Acelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Acelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.