Meaning not yet researched.
Deklyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,962 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,962 in 2015; #3,869 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deklyn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,869 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,962.
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Deklyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,962 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 74 (2015).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Deklyn, making it the 3,869th most common boys’ name of the year, up 597 places from #4,466 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 23 boys named Deklyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,962, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #1,962 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Deklyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #6,259, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #8,576 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deklyn in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 975 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 624 babies named Deklyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 485 US boys were named Deklyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Declan (58,950 babies since 1880), Deklan (2,484 babies since 1880) and Declyn (768 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Decklynn 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: Decklynn (21).
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 Deklyn 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 | — | — | 28 | #3,869 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,873 | 23 | #4,466 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,785 | 33 | #3,488 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,735 | 46 | #2,803 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,038 | 48 | #2,661 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,654 | 59 | #2,299 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,844 | 64 | #2,192 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,592 | 68 | #2,088 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,548 | 55 | #2,354 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,031 | 61 | #2,214 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,576 | 74 | #1,962 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,259 | 52 | #2,436 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,485 | 41 | #2,816 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,759 | 31 | #3,465 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,464 | 37 | #3,068 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,777 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,516 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,465 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,262 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,479 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #11,872 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,277 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,654 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #10,970 |
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).