Girls' name · since 2008
Heilyn
Heilyn has 110 recorded births since 2008 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,058 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,904 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 110
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Heilyn currently ranks #9904 among girls' names in America, with 110 babies recorded since 2008.
Heilyn has 110 recorded births among girls since 2008, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9904 as of the latest data, more common than 43% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2025.
- #26,058 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,904 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 110 born since 2008
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Heilyn ranks #26,058 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,904 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 110 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,058 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,904 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 110
- born since 2008
- 2020s
- peak decade
Heilyn's 110 recorded births place it above 63.89% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Heilyn compares
110 26th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Heilyn's all-time total is 71% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Heilyn | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 110 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Heilyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Heilyn's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 61% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 39%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2010, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2023 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Heilyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Heilyn by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (59 births, 54% of the file).
2020s was Heilyn's strongest decade.
59 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Heilyn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 7
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
44 births
- 2020s
2020s
59 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 59 births (54% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Heilyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.