Scotlyn
Scotlyn was given to 155 girls in 2025, #1,412 among girls’ names; 1,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Scotlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Scotlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Scotlyn?
#1,412 among girls’ names, 2025
Scotlyn rose from #2,771 in 2015 to #1,412 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.9 to 96.4 per million.
163 babies in 2024, the peak
Scotlyn peaked in 2024, when 163 girls were given it, #1,388 among girls’ names. The 155 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,412 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,388 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,900 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,171 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,247 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,655 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,847 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,673 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,294 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,005 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,771 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,643 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,257 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,105 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,694 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,150 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,912 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,628 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,075 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,643 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,350 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,764 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,525 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,858 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,642 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,449 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,629 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,026 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,146 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Scotlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Scotlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Scotlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Scotlyn, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,385 Americans ever recorded as Scotlyn. The median Scotlyn alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Scotlyn (689 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 308 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,121 babies since 1880, Scotlyn is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 155 of their 426 babies (36%), again the 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 Scotlyn
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 Scotlyn and names like it
- Compare Scotlyn and ScottlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sScotlyn peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Scotlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Scotlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Scotlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.