Kelyn
Kelyn was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 764 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,817, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 2006, the peak
Kelyn peaked in 2006, when 35 babies were given it (22 girls, #6,025 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,207 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,418 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,367 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,285 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,817 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,121 | 10 | #7,939 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,482 | 11 | #7,386 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,157 | 9 | #8,509 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,325 | 10 | #7,890 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 14 | #6,152 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,722 | 10 | #7,862 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,807 | 13 | #6,448 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,844 | 10 | #7,854 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,983 | 10 | #7,801 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,975 | 15 | #5,895 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,886 | 10 | #8,013 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,224 | 15 | #5,931 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,908 | 14 | #6,112 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,025 | 13 | #6,289 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,164 | 16 | #5,162 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,979 | 10 | #7,286 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,749 | 7 | #9,184 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,914 | 6 | #10,074 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,803 | 11 | #6,237 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,283 | 11 | #6,127 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,779 | 13 | #5,179 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,933 | 11 | #5,656 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,328 | 6 | #8,729 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,174 | 7 | #7,570 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,280 | 11 | #5,332 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,019 | 7 | #7,376 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,777 | 5 | #9,484 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,931 | 9 | #5,889 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,243 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,770 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,365 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,399 | 5 | #7,922 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,530 | 5 | #7,578 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,407 | 6 | #6,335 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,915 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,605 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,188 | 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 Kelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 764 Americans recorded as Kelyn, 56% are girls and 44% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Kelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 752 Americans named Kelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 910 people named Kelyn (591 women and girls, 319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 724 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,840 babies since 1880, Kelyn is the sixth most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 120 babies (5.8%), again the sixth most given.
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 Kelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Carrington | 4,481 |
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 Kelyn and names like it
- Compare Kelyn and KellynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKelyn peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.