Keilyn
Keilyn was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,605 among girls’ names; 1,448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Keilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keilyn?
#4,605 among girls’ names, 2025
Keilyn fell from #3,455 in 2015 to #4,605 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 18.7 per million.
82 babies in 2011, the peak
Keilyn peaked in 2011, when 82 babies were given it (62 girls, #2,815 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,605 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,431 | 6 | #11,681 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,300 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,443 | 6 | #11,616 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,187 | 10 | #7,877 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,915 | 11 | #7,261 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,479 | 9 | #8,543 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,816 | 8 | #9,239 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,954 | 7 | #10,252 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,304 | 8 | #9,291 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,455 | 8 | #9,171 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,251 | 10 | #7,858 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,043 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,988 | 13 | #6,494 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,815 | 20 | #4,752 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,881 | 17 | #5,366 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,812 | 9 | #8,681 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,744 | 9 | #8,670 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,975 | 12 | #6,871 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,697 | 14 | #5,952 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,422 | 6 | #10,810 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,999 | 6 | #10,689 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,922 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,219 | 6 | #10,064 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,086 | 8 | #7,953 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,866 | 9 | #7,118 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,053 | 5 | #10,799 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,210 | 5 | #10,482 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,312 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,170 | 6 | #8,483 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,404 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,343 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,044 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,214 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,021 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Keilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,448 Americans recorded as Keilyn, 84% are girls and 16% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keilyn, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,448 Americans ever recorded as Keilyn. The median Keilyn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,085 people named Keilyn (896 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 669 |
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 Keilyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,130 | 1.0× |
Where Keilyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keilyn is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 it was given 1.4 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 Keilyn 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 8,840 babies since 1880, Keilyn is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 120 babies (25%), the second 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 Keilyn
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 Keilyn and names like it
- Compare Keilyn and KellynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeilyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Keilyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keilyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.