Katlin
Katlin was last recorded in 2015, when 8 babies were given it; 5,461 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,350 Americans named Katlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 27 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Katlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Katlin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,400, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
395 babies in 1993, the peak
Katlin peaked in 1993, when 395 babies were given it (385 girls, #603 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,400 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,275 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,970 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,427 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,978 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,673 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,461 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,553 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,496 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 99 | #1,938 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,432 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,850 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,311 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 184 | #1,136 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 203 | #1,034 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 267 | #813 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 309 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 310 | #695 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 339 | #654 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 367 | #609 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 324 | #662 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 385 | #603 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 298 | #717 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 355 | #632 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 356 | #628 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 314 | #653 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 244 | #768 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 130 | #1,139 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,657 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,182 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,051 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Katlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,461 Americans recorded as Katlin, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Katlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Katlin, and how old are they?
5,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,461 Americans ever recorded as Katlin. The median Katlin alive today is 32 years old; half are between 27 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 4,993 people named Katlin (4,887 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
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 Katlin born?
The states with the most babies named Katlin are Ohio, California and Texas, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 307 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 283 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 270 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 241 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 239 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 223 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 202 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 197 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 179 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Katlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Katlin is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1981 it was given 1.9 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 Katlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 507,774 babies since 1880, Katlin is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 690 babies recorded by SSA was a Katlin (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 Katlin
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 Katlin and names like it
- Compare Katlin and KaitlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKatlin peaked in 1993.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Katlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Katlin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Katlin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.