Kaitlyne
Kaitlyne was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 318 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaitlyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaitlyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,142, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1998, the peak
Kaitlyne peaked in 1998, when 27 girls were given it, #4,181 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,142 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,113 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,402 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,757 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,631 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,993 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,661 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,138 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,222 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,128 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 21 | #5,450 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,261 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,035 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,181 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,012 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,501 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,106 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,135 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,895 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,135 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,249 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,156 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,472 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaitlyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaitlyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaitlyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaitlyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 313 Americans named Kaitlyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 23 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 308 people named Kaitlyne (307 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,804 babies since 1880, Kaitlyne is the fourth most given (11% of them).
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 Kaitlyne
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 Kaitlyne and names like it
- Compare Kaitlyne and KaitlynneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaitlyne peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaitlyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kaitlyne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaitlyne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.