Coralyn
Coralyn was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,573 among girls’ names; 1,119 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coralyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coralyn?
#7,573 among girls’ names, 2025
Coralyn fell from #3,307 in 2015 to #7,573 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 8.7 per million.
55 babies in 2013, the peak
Coralyn peaked in 2013, when 55 girls were given it, #3,013 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,573 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,047 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,027 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,608 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,743 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,286 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,562 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,694 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,353 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,194 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,307 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,144 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,013 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,428 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,084 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,275 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,406 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,861 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,008 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,645 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,889 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,362 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,677 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,652 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,871 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,555 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,656 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,712 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,759 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,095 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,811 | 3.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,193 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,093 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,292 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,992 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,597 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,504 | 3.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,513 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,735 | 4.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,145 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,556 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,576 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,979 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,392 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,524 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,674 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,586 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,601 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,533 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,987 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,249 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,744 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,935 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,452 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,718 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,087 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,061 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,678 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,531 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,557 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,496 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,597 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,955 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,922 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,287 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,203 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,963 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,477 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,678 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,804 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,105 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,707 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,832 | 6.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,981 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,155 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,224 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,558 | 5.0 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,618 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Coralyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coralyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coralyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coralyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 942 Americans named Coralyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 852 people named Coralyn (850 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,456 babies since 1880, Coralyn is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 64 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
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 Coralyn and names like it
- Compare Coralyn and CoralynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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