Kaytlin
Kaytlin was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 3,324 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,270 Americans named Kaytlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaytlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaytlin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,186, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
201 babies in 1999, the peak
Kaytlin peaked in 1999, when 201 girls were given it, #1,018 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13 | #8,186 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,793 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,831 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,246 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,775 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,114 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,960 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,673 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,422 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,661 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 27 | #5,097 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,120 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,174 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,814 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,095 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,811 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,344 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,012 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,515 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,324 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,536 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,099 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 201 | #1,018 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 181 | #1,075 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 175 | #1,074 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 165 | #1,102 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 129 | #1,315 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,608 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 116 | #1,363 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,753 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,847 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,189 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,842 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,498 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,510 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaytlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaytlin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaytlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaytlin, and how old are they?
3,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,324 Americans ever recorded as Kaytlin. The median Kaytlin alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,817 people named Kaytlin (2,813 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 206 |
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 Kaytlin born?
The states with the most babies named Kaytlin are Texas, California and Missouri, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 291 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 250 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 97 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 93 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 92 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 91 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 75 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 65 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Kaytlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kaytlin?
Kaytlin is a less common spelling of Kaitlyn: SSA has recorded 3,324 Kaytlin and 166,921 Kaitlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 375,639 babies since 1880, Kaytlin is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 471 babies recorded by SSA was a Kaytlin (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 Kaytlin
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 Kaytlin and names like it
- Compare Kaytlin and KaitlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaytlin peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaytlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kaytlin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaytlin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.