Kaelynn
Kaelynn was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,310 among girls’ names; 5,052 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,010 Americans named Kaelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaelynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.”
20th-century coinage.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaelynn?
#2,310 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaelynn fell from #942 in 2015 to #2,310 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.05 per 1,000.
288 babies in 2012, the peak
Kaelynn peaked in 2012, when 288 girls were given it, #909 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,310 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 96 | #2,036 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,099 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,552 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,594 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,463 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,636 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 204 | #1,179 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,211 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 221 | #1,143 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 288 | #942 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 263 | #1,002 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 250 | #1,001 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 288 | #909 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 277 | #931 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 287 | #912 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 278 | #963 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,066 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 206 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,243 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,559 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,931 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,151 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,035 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,199 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,130 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,382 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,436 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,028 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,643 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,431 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,765 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,312 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,132 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,255 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,063 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,663 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,441 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,738 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,860 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,229 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaelynn, and how old are they?
5,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,052 Americans ever recorded as Kaelynn. The median Kaelynn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,694 people named Kaelynn (3,686 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 299 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,220 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kaelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Kaelynn are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,748 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,490 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,452 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,352 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,306 | 0.7× |
Where Kaelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaelynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1982 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaelynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 75,661 babies since 1880, Kaelynn is the sixth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 644 babies (12%), the fourth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaelynn
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 Kaelynn and names like it
- Compare Kaelynn and KaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaelynn peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaelynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaelynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kaelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.