Kalynn
Kalynn was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,299 among girls’ names; 3,722 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,660 Americans named Kalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kalynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kalynn?
#7,299 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalynn fell from #2,225 in 2015 to #7,299 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 9.3 per million.
145 babies in 1995, the peak
Kalynn peaked in 1995, when 145 babies were given it (135 girls, #1,254 among girls’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,299 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,522 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,467 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,838 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,281 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,309 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,299 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,081 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,275 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,257 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,225 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,225 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,856 | 62.1 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,037 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,960 | 57.4 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,049 | 54.6 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,652 | 73.5 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,580 | 76.7 |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,675 | 68.7 |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,728 | 63.6 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,652 | 65.5 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,728 | 61.0 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,723 | 60.2 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,925 | 51.2 |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,852 | 52.8 |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,461 | 69.4 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,614 | 58.6 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,396 | 69.6 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,457 | 64.9 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,300 | 75.9 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,254 | 76.8 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,418 | 63.3 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,420 | 63.0 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,461 | 58.6 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,781 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,783 | 42.7 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,752 | 41.8 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,774 | 39.9 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,002 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,437 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,890 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,054 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,872 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,602 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,706 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,723 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,933 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,257 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,900 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,639 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,165 | 6.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,979 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,671 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,872 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,638 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,998 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,577 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,770 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,122 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,211 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,384 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,541 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,173 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,600 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,875 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,263 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalynn has been given almost only to girls: 33 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalynn, and how old are they?
3,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,722 Americans ever recorded as Kalynn. The median Kalynn alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,063 people named Kalynn (2,994 women and girls, 69 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 603 |
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 Kalynn born?
The states with the most babies named Kalynn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 330 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 199 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 155 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 124 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 97 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 85 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 82 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Kalynn 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, Kalynn is the eighth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 644 babies (2.3%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kalynn
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 Kalynn and names like it
- Compare Kalynn and KaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalynn peaked in 1995.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kalynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Kalynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.