Karilyn
Karilyn was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 897 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,424, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1978, the peak
Karilyn peaked in 1978, when 32 girls were given it, #2,649 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,424 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,114 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,593 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,391 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,910 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,895 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,763 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,210 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,086 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,493 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #10,235 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,148 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,477 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,042 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,232 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,496 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,288 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,971 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,769 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,054 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,909 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,268 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,428 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,018 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,753 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,080 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,668 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,347 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,155 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,425 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,938 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,911 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,272 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,024 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,351 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,667 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,087 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,562 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,649 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,905 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,372 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,708 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,574 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,325 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,919 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,282 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,612 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,852 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,103 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,773 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,507 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,028 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,778 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,531 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,509 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,124 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,418 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,811 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,452 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,058 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,869 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,499 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,234 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,077 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,290 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,128 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,318 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,962 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,768 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,548 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,822 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,832 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,440 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,734 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,597 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,095 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,813 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,667 | 6.3 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,052 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 792 Americans named Karilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 31 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Karilyn (827 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 575,651 babies since 1880, Karilyn is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 256 babies recorded by SSA was a Karilyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karilyn
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 Karilyn and names like it
- Compare Karilyn and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarilyn peaked in 1978.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Karilyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karilyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.