Kathelyn
Kathelyn was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kathelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kathelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,339, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1990, the peak
Kathelyn peaked in 1990, when 18 girls were given it, #5,161 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,339 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,848 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,580 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,733 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,957 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,693 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,983 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,668 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,968 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,437 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | #12,165 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,237 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,882 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,538 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,447 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,482 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,879 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,112 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,098 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,541 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,087 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,655 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,161 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,731 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,159 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,481 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,765 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,749 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,681 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,040 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kathelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kathelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kathelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kathelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Kathelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Kathelyn (254 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,019 babies since 1880, Kathelyn is the sixth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 34 babies recorded by SSA was a Kathelyn (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 Kathelyn
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 Kathelyn and names like it
- Compare Kathelyn and KathlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKathelyn peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kathelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kathelyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kathelyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.