Kelynn
Kelynn was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 89 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kelynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,489, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2010, the peak
Kelynn peaked in 2010, when 11 babies were given it (5 girls, #18,452 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,489 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,289 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,791 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,303 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,255 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,805 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,452 | 6 | #11,511 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,627 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,447 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,337 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #14,804 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,297 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,753 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,587 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,054 | 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 Kelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 89 Americans recorded as Kelynn, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kelynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Kelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 180 people named Kelynn (125 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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
Kelynn is a less common spelling of Kellyn: SSA has recorded 89 Kelynn and 2,209 Kellyn since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kelynn
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.