Kaylyn
Kaylyn was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,525 among girls’ names; 12,091 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,900 Americans named Kaylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaylyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaylyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Kay + -lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaylyn?
#2,525 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylyn fell from #1,272 in 2015 to #2,525 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.04 per 1,000.
464 babies in 1994, the peak
Kaylyn peaked in 1994, when 464 babies were given it (459 girls, #536 among girls’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,525 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,870 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,372 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,543 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 97 | #2,000 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,389 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,942 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,733 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,647 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,400 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 192 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 255 | #985 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 277 | #927 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 354 | #769 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 356 | #770 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 413 | #703 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 411 | #723 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 462 | #642 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 409 | #693 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 420 | #662 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 396 | #690 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 408 | #651 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 430 | #600 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 392 | #644 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 437 | #589 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 443 | #568 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 437 | #563 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 462 | #519 | 0.27 |
| 1996 | 419 | #559 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 436 | #546 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 459 | #536 | 0.26 |
| 1993 | 398 | #592 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 383 | #595 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 287 | #724 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 315 | #677 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 263 | #748 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 197 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 160 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,318 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,641 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,208 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,450 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,049 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,421 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,058 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,725 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,728 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,074 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,467 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,301 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,118 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,466 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,640 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,944 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,353 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,259 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,063 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,395 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,128 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,380 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,633 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylyn has been given almost only to girls: 38 boys in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylyn, and how old are they?
11,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 12,091 Americans ever recorded as Kaylyn. The median Kaylyn alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 10,517 people named Kaylyn (10,419 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,509 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 85 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Kaylyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylyn are Texas, Florida and New York, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,564 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,325 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5 | #2,256 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,668 | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | #613 | 0.9× |
Where Kaylyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylyn is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1949 it was given 1.3 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 Kaylyn 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 98,573 babies since 1880, Kaylyn is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 772 babies (9.1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kaylyn
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 Kaylyn and names like it
- Compare Kaylyn and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaylyn peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaylyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Kaylyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.