Kalyn — #5819 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kalyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,393 babies named Kalyn between 1956 and 2024, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalyn currently holds the #5819 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 354 babies received it in a single year. Kalyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 381 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalyn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,807 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Kalyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 695 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalyn in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,393 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.