Karlin
Karlin was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 886 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karlin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,342, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1999, the peak
Karlin peaked in 1999, when 27 babies were given it (13 girls, #7,454 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,183 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 11 | #7,506 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,342 | 6 | #11,529 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,306 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #13,095 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,795 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 16 | #5,681 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,700 | 11 | #7,367 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,191 | 14 | #6,185 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,141 | 9 | #8,482 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,426 | 8 | #9,153 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,423 | |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,572 | 9 | #8,450 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,823 | 9 | #8,509 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,153 | 11 | #7,239 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,474 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,201 | 8 | #9,436 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,418 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,225 | 10 | #7,884 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,907 | 10 | #7,722 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #7,986 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,066 | 5 | #12,297 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,019 | 8 | #8,234 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,869 | 6 | #10,046 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,715 | 5 | #11,473 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,291 | 7 | #8,667 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,454 | 14 | #4,885 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,770 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,481 | 8 | #6,940 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,908 | 9 | #6,251 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,383 | 6 | #8,333 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,145 | 10 | #5,669 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,816 | 8 | #6,528 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,376 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,263 | 9 | #5,737 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,733 | 9 | #5,592 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,207 | 6 | #7,436 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,997 | 7 | #6,122 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,427 | 11 | #4,094 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,400 | 9 | #4,660 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,676 | 5 | #7,067 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,671 | 7 | #5,267 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,550 | 6 | #5,867 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #4,000 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,116 | 9 | #4,319 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,114 | |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,263 | 8 | #4,358 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,953 | 6 | #5,488 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,394 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,863 | 8 | #3,796 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,283 | 6 | #4,669 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,887 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,562 | 5 | #4,713 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,581 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,370 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,966 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,717 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,491 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,015 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,603 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,707 | 6 | #3,804 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,337 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,598 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,086 | |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,698 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,129 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,207 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,894 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,902 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,650 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Karlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 886 Americans recorded as Karlin, 52% are girls and 48% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Karlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karlin, and how old are they?
An estimated 835 Americans named Karlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 963 people named Karlin (565 women and girls, 398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 803 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Karlin?
Karlin is a less common spelling of Carlyn: SSA has recorded 886 Karlin and 4,373 Carlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,127 babies since 1880, Karlin is the eighth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 65 babies (11%), the fifth 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 Karlin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Stormy | 8,609 |
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 Karlin and names like it
- Compare Karlin and CarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarlin peaked in 1999.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Karlin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karlin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.