Meaning not yet researched.
Caelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,251 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,251 in 2012; #5,272 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,272 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,251.
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Caelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,251 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 193 (2012).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Caelyn, making it the 5,272nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 561 places from #5,833 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 21 girls named Caelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,251, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 193. For comparison, it was #2,027 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caelyn in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 7 babies. In all, 2,426 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,176 babies named Caelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 416 US girls were named Caelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880), Callan (12,634 babies since 1880) and Kaylyn (12,091 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,272 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,925 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,862 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2013 | 183 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2012 | 193 | #1,251 | 5 | #12,566 |
| 2011 | 173 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2010 | 179 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,122 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,178 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,829 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,589 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,453 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,586 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,035 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,899 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).