Kelyn — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 428 babies named Kelyn between 1981 and 2020, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kelyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Kelyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 329 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kelyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 148 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kelyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 428 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.