Alyn
Alyn is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,001 among girls’ names and #10,761 among boys’, #13,583 among all names counting both); 798 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alyn is “a male given name, compare with Alun.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alyn?
#12,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyn fell from #6,734 in 2015 to #12,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 4.4 per million.
38 babies in 2005, the peak
Alyn peaked in 2005, when 38 babies were given it (31 girls, #4,374 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,001 | 6 | #10,761 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,578 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,724 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,605 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,534 | 7 | #9,611 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,771 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,183 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,050 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,920 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,734 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,024 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,052 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,228 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,223 | 5 | #12,368 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,663 | 6 | #10,827 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,103 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,362 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,952 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,392 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,374 | 7 | #9,163 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,504 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,714 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,310 | 5 | #10,738 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,146 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,182 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,828 | 6 | #8,741 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,291 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,157 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,872 | 5 | #9,059 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,608 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,830 | 5 | #8,736 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,797 | 5 | #8,481 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,553 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,243 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,876 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,342 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,171 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,050 | 6 | #5,505 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 6 | #5,650 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,595 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,904 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,651 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,460 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #3,973 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,154 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #3,942 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,594 | 7 | #3,311 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,077 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 10 | #2,690 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,421 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,004 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,364 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 11 | #2,439 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #2,947 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,054 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,926 | 8 | #2,875 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,370 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,774 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,703 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,444 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,322 | 7 | #3,099 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #2,926 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,751 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #2,967 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #2,882 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,123 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,542 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,535 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,661 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 7 | #2,980 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,282 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 12 | #2,192 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 16 | #1,846 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 9 | #2,780 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #3,974 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,168 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 798 Americans recorded as Alyn, 60% are girls and 40% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 653 Americans named Alyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 799 people named Alyn (493 women and girls, 306 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,393 babies since 1880, Alyn is the seventh most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,381 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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.
More about Alyn and names like it
- Compare Alyn and AylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlyn peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Alyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.