Katelin
Katelin was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 8,917 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,750 Americans named Katelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 24 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katelin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,354, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
444 babies in 1993, the peak
Katelin peaked in 1993, when 444 girls were given it, #539 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,354 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,051 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,295 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,110 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,468 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,170 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,625 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,545 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,752 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,061 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 66 | #2,695 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,109 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,918 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,627 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 171 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 232 | #1,092 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 249 | #984 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 281 | #874 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 264 | #904 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 324 | #749 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 377 | #668 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 409 | #620 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 408 | #598 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 412 | #589 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 405 | #574 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 429 | #545 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 437 | #545 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 399 | #575 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 444 | #539 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 354 | #636 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 409 | #570 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 409 | #567 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 418 | #543 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 399 | #548 | 0.22 |
| 1987 | 258 | #711 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 214 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 168 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 112 | #1,182 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,026 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,558 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,984 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,267 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,958 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Katelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Katelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katelin, and how old are they?
8,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,917 Americans ever recorded as Katelin. The median Katelin alive today is 30 years old; half are between 24 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 7,807 people named Katelin (7,798 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 199 |
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 Katelin born?
The states with the most babies named Katelin are California, Texas and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 809 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 481 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 440 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 400 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 346 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 345 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 313 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 299 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 271 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 243 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Katelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katelin is most over-represented in Utah: since 1977 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Katelin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Katelin?
Katelin is a less common spelling of Katelyn: SSA has recorded 8,917 Katelin and 134,206 Katelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 260,761 babies since 1880, Katelin is the fifth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 335 babies recorded by SSA was a Katelin (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 Katelin
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 Katelin and names like it
- Compare Katelin and KatelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatelin peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katelin since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Katelin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katelin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.