Kashlyn — #5247 US girls' name
359 babies named Kashlyn in U.S. Social Security records since 2004, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 70% of names given to girls today.
61% of everyone ever named Kashlyn was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Kashlyn in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kashlyn
The Social Security Administration has registered 359 babies named Kashlyn between 2004 and 2024, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kashlyn currently holds the #5247 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kashlyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 219 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Kashlyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kashlyn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kashlyn 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 359 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.
Kashlyn at a glance
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Current rank
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Kashlyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2004
- Peak year (2016)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
Currently ranks #5247 among girls.
359 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 32 births in a single year.
Kashlyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 219 births that decade — 61% of Kashlyn's all-time total
Kashlyn decade highlights
- Peak decade 219 births
- Runner-up 105 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kashlyn's strongest decade
219 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 61% of all-time use.
Kashlyn by state
Where Kashlyn concentrates geographically — total births since 2004
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 30 | 8.4% |
30 of 359 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 8.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 8.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2004–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.