Karalyn
Karalyn was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,150 among girls’ names; 1,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Karalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karalyn?
#9,150 among girls’ names, 2025
Karalyn fell from #4,785 in 2015 to #9,150 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.8 per million.
46 babies in 1996, the peak
Karalyn peaked in 1996, when 46 girls were given it, #2,690 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,150 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,671 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,685 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,044 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,834 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,480 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,830 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,988 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,403 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,211 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,785 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,402 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,701 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,001 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,750 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,994 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,833 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,076 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,744 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,482 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,351 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,461 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,468 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,623 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,443 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,360 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,957 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,451 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,003 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,690 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,386 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,956 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,070 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,364 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,866 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,249 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,427 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,182 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,053 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,224 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,279 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,590 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,612 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,421 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,024 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,215 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,593 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,689 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,965 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,591 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,437 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,314 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,847 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,917 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,939 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,360 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,379 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,101 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,436 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,506 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,196 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,973 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,575 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,122 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,069 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,724 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,619 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,398 | 4.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,283 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,439 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,363 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,721 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karalyn, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,601 Americans ever recorded as Karalyn. The median Karalyn alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,423 people named Karalyn (1,421 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,490 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 224 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 469 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 563 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 575,651 babies since 1880, Karalyn is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 256 babies (4.3%), again the fifth 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 Karalyn
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 Karalyn and names like it
- Compare Karalyn and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaralyn peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Karalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.