Meaning not yet researched.
Kaelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #332 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #332 in 2009; #1,601 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,601 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #332.
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Kaelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 girls in 2025. Peak: #332 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 997 (2009).
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Kaelyn, making it the 1,601st most common girls’ name of the year, up 42 places from #1,643 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 126 girls named Kaelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #332, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 997. For comparison, it was #522 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaelyn in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 15,648 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,484 babies named Kaelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,198 US girls were named Kaelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 391. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,269 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaelyn ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #579 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880), Kaylynn (12,257 babies since 1880) and Kaylyn (12,091 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Calyn, Caelen and Callyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Calyn (820), Caelen (616), Callyn (607), Caelynn (607), Kayelynn (394), Kaelynne (196), Kalyan (190), Kaeleen (76), Kaelene (72), Kailyne (49), Caelon (37), Kalyne (37), and more.
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 Kaelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #579 | #297 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #643 | #407 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,332 | #616 |
| California | 16 | #1,444 | #635 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,451 | #420 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,489 | #427 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,505 | #449 |
| New York | 7 | #1,741 | #481 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,643 | 5 | #13,227 |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2019 | 245 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2018 | 280 | #948 | — | — |
| 2017 | 333 | #821 | — | — |
| 2016 | 391 | #726 | — | — |
| 2015 | 602 | #522 | 8 | #9,149 |
| 2014 | 533 | #575 | — | — |
| 2013 | 692 | #443 | — | — |
| 2012 | 754 | #417 | 8 | #9,286 |
| 2011 | 822 | #385 | 5 | #13,310 |
| 2010 | 945 | #340 | 6 | #11,452 |
| 2009 | 997 | #332 | 9 | #8,658 |
| 2008 | 949 | #351 | — | — |
| 2007 | 987 | #338 | — | — |
| 2006 | 879 | #370 | 7 | #10,112 |
| 2005 | 562 | #521 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 2004 | 502 | #569 | — | — |
| 2003 | 438 | #612 | — | — |
| 2002 | 389 | #650 | — | — |
| 2001 | 380 | #663 | — | — |
| 2000 | 380 | #651 | — | — |
| 1999 | 343 | #668 | — | — |
| 1998 | 292 | #744 | — | — |
| 1997 | 316 | #685 | 6 | #8,698 |
| 1996 | 298 | #711 | 10 | #5,769 |
| 1995 | 312 | #682 | 13 | #4,656 |
| 1994 | 175 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1990 | 95 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,347 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,711 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,897 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,352 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,507 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,961 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,200 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,702 | — | — |
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).