Kalyn
Kalyn was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,216 among girls’ names; 7,793 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,640 Americans named Kalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalyn?
#6,216 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalyn fell from #2,365 in 2015 to #6,216 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 11.8 per million.
371 babies in 1993, the peak
Kalyn peaked in 1993, when 371 babies were given it (354 girls, #633 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,872 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,940 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,717 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,817 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,107 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,192 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,590 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,398 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,365 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,431 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,997 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,962 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,697 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 170 | #1,368 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 214 | #1,177 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 211 | #1,208 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,192 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 223 | #1,120 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 234 | #1,032 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 242 | #984 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 229 | #1,010 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 242 | #925 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 240 | #925 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 256 | #859 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 258 | #838 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 262 | #813 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 265 | #785 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 271 | #775 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 270 | #753 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 350 | #628 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 354 | #633 | 0.20 |
| 1992 | 275 | #757 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 271 | #760 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 231 | #853 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 230 | #824 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 202 | #873 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 180 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 127 | #1,136 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,357 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,573 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,199 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,353 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,094 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,837 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,298 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,234 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,182 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,421 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,209 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,559 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,595 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,793 Americans recorded as Kalyn, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalyn, and how old are they?
7,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,793 Americans ever recorded as Kalyn. The median Kalyn alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 6,863 people named Kalyn (6,544 women and girls, 319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 54 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 216 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 560 |
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 Kalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kalyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 695 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 477 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 398 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 317 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 293 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 256 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 248 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 219 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 219 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 201 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Kalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalyn is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1956 it was given 1.5 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 Kalyn 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 96,132 babies since 1880, Kalyn is the seventh most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 747 babies (2.5%), the eighth 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 Kalyn
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 Kalyn and names like it
- Compare Kalyn and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalyn peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.