Meaning not yet researched.
Caylin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,330 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,330 in 1996; #11,138 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caylin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,138 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,330.
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Caylin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,330 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 143 (2009).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Caylin, making it the 11,138th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,142 places from #6,996 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 16 girls named Caylin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,330, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 143, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,143 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caylin in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 6 babies. In all, 2,558 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 963 babies named Caylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 219 US girls were named Caylin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Callan (12,634 babies since 1880), Kaylyn (12,091 babies since 1880) and Callen (10,105 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 Caylin 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 | 8 | #11,138 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,995 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,638 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,253 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,850 | 6 | #10,950 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,956 | 5 | #12,602 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,574 | 7 | #10,045 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 2006 | 98 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1998 | 129 | #1,355 | 11 | #5,525 |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,346 | 7 | #7,400 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,330 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,220 | 6 | #7,949 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,145 | 8 | #6,456 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,220 | 6 | #7,402 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,263 | 9 | #5,444 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,490 | 5 | #8,074 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,536 | 5 | #7,108 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,221 | 6 | #6,050 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,293 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,408 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,288 | — | — |
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).