Edlyn
Edlyn was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 496 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edlyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Edlyn is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A 20th-century coinage, apparently a blend of Ed + Lyn, or a variant of Edeline.
/ˈɛdlɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edlyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,374, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1989, the peak
Edlyn peaked in 1989, when 27 girls were given it, #3,699 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,374 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,906 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,883 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,945 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,894 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,647 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,755 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,418 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,115 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,369 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 16 | #7,410 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,811 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,255 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,202 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,865 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,088 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,156 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,904 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,462 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,348 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,174 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,491 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,589 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,428 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,357 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,724 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,505 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,059 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,333 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,211 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,898 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,396 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,551 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,556 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,699 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,892 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,131 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,396 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,763 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,865 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,738 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,476 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,423 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,189 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,858 | 4.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,087 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Edlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Edlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Edlyn (621 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 455 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 1,589 babies since 1880, Edlyn is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 none of their 67 babies recorded by SSA was a Edlyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Edlyn
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 Edlyn and names like it
- Compare Edlyn and EdelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEdlyn peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edlyn since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Edlyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Edlyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Edlyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.