Alyn — #13639 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Alyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 470 babies named Alyn between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alyn currently holds the #13639 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Alyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 315 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Alyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Alyn in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 470 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.