Girls' name · since 1980
Katielynn
Katielynn has 343 recorded births since 1980 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2006 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #14,806 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 343
- born since 1980
- 2000s
- peak decade
Katielynn is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 343 have been recorded since 1980.
Katielynn has 343 recorded births among girls since 1980, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1980 to 2020.
- #14,806 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 343 born since 1980
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Katielynn ranks #14,806 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 343 born since 1980, peaking in the 2000s.
- #14,806 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 343
- born since 1980
- 2000s
- peak decade
Katielynn's 343 recorded births place it above 79.5% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Katielynn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Katielynn's SSA record in two at 2000 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1985, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2006 peak of 20, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Katielynn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–2020
- Peak year (2006)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Katielynn by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (106 births, 31% of the file).
2000s was Katielynn's strongest decade.
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 31% of all-time use.
Katielynn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
70 births
- 1990s
1990s
103 births
- 2000s
2000s
106 births
- 2010s
2010s
59 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 106 births (31% of all-time use).
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- Katielynn's decade-level peak was the 2000s (106 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Katielynn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~40 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1980–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Katielynn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.