Kellyn
Kellyn is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,422 among girls’ names and #13,002 among boys’, #13,932 among all names counting both); 2,209 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Kellyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kellyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kellyn?
#11,422 among girls’ names, 2025
Kellyn fell from #3,809 in 2015 to #11,422 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 5.0 per million.
97 babies in 1985, the peak
Kellyn peaked in 1985, when 97 girls were given it, #1,353 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,422 | 5 | #13,002 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,801 | 5 | #13,304 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,088 | 8 | #9,364 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,278 | 9 | #8,660 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,250 | 8 | #9,273 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,948 | 7 | #10,099 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,838 | 15 | #5,966 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,574 | 9 | #8,513 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,245 | 5 | #13,301 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,481 | 9 | #8,497 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,809 | 9 | #8,391 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,620 | 11 | #7,305 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,495 | 19 | #4,892 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,293 | 8 | #9,309 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,522 | 8 | #9,202 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,030 | 13 | #6,549 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,487 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,732 | 8 | #9,446 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,951 | 7 | #10,363 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,699 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,293 | 6 | #10,816 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,292 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,387 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,031 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,514 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,994 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,873 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,455 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,191 | 6 | #8,728 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,354 | 5 | #9,800 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,901 | 7 | #7,399 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,769 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,695 | 7 | #7,214 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,232 | 5 | #9,145 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,635 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,252 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,824 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,625 | 7 | #6,132 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,503 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,470 | 7 | #5,656 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,353 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,738 | 7 | #5,280 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,372 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,476 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,424 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,160 | 5 | #6,776 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,620 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,353 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,818 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,657 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,359 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,274 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,983 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,784 | 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 Kellyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,209 Americans recorded as Kellyn, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kellyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kellyn, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,209 Americans ever recorded as Kellyn. The median Kellyn alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,138 people named Kellyn (1,917 women and girls, 221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 886 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 787 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 435 |
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 Kellyn born?
The states with the most babies named Kellyn are California, Texas and New York, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 42 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Kellyn 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 10,970 babies since 1880, Kellyn is the most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 120 babies (11%), the third 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 Kellyn
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 Kellyn and names like it
- Compare Kellyn and KellyannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKellyn peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kellyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Kellyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kellyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.