Meaning not yet researched.
Carlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #952 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #952 in 1943; #8,462 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,462 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #952.
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Carlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #952 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 74 (1992).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Carlyn, making it the 8,462nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,013 places from #6,449 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 18 girls named Carlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #952, reached in 1943. The most girls given the name in a single year was 74, in 1992. For comparison, it was #4,513 in 2015 and #1,295 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlyn in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 4,373 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 619 babies named Carlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US girls were named Carlyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carlene (15,225 babies since 1880), Carleen (6,744 babies since 1880) and Carlin (4,565 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karlynn and Carlyann are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karlynn (414), Carlyann (62).
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 Carlyn 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 | 12 | #8,462 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,449 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,716 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,693 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,356 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,884 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,002 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,413 | — | — |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,630 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,657 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,931 | 5 | #8,992 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,654 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1950 | 50 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1944 | 60 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1943 | 68 | #952 | — | — |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,224 | 8 | #2,685 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,275 | 5 | #3,525 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,351 | 6 | #3,164 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,446 | 10 | #2,352 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,269 | 5 | #3,621 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,516 | 5 | #3,718 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,954 | 6 | #3,443 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,561 | 5 | #4,047 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,936 | 7 | #3,542 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,972 | — | — |
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).