Kaylynn
Kaylynn was given to 134 girls in 2025, #1,576 among girls’ names; 12,257 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,100 Americans named Kaylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaylynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaylynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.”
20th-century coinage; from Kay + -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaylynn?
#1,576 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylynn fell from #740 in 2015 to #1,576 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.08 per 1,000.
590 babies in 2009, the peak
Kaylynn peaked in 2009, when 590 girls were given it, #513 among girls’ names. The 134 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 140 | #1,532 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,353 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 167 | #1,379 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,339 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 216 | #1,118 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 247 | #1,040 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 252 | #1,028 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,011 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 313 | #895 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 380 | #740 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 447 | #640 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 470 | #600 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 459 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 496 | #582 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 512 | #570 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 590 | #513 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 580 | #528 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 502 | #599 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 464 | #624 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 411 | #677 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 418 | #656 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 349 | #735 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 301 | #783 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 319 | #753 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 307 | #750 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 288 | #769 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 281 | #767 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 289 | #738 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 254 | #808 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 248 | #801 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 226 | #865 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 232 | #843 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 206 | #941 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,346 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 132 | #1,219 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,598 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,677 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,368 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,529 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,069 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,911 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,828 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,729 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,375 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,021 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,580 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,029 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,926 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,670 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,065 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,566 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,438 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,802 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,329 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,129 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,337 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,167 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylynn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylynn, and how old are they?
12,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,257 Americans ever recorded as Kaylynn. The median Kaylynn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 9,933 people named Kaylynn (9,898 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,191 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 216 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,340 |
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 Kaylynn born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylynn are Ohio, Texas and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 14 | #691 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,303 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #2,194 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,780 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,141 | 1.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,952 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,459 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,119 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,520 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,006 | 1.4× |
Where Kaylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylynn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1947 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 Kaylynn 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, Kaylynn is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 772 babies (17%), the 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 Kaylynn
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 Kaylynn and names like it
- Compare Kaylynn and KaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaylynn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Kaylynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kaylynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.