Meaning not yet researched.
Kailin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,345 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,345 in 1997; #7,294 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kailin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,294 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #2,345.
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Kailin: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,345 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 57 (1997).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Kailin, making it the 7,294th most common girls’ name of the year, down 508 places from #6,786 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 17 girls named Kailin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,345, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #6,135 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Kailin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #5,667, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 2005. For comparison, it was #13,037 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kailin in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 6 babies. In all, 1,410 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 498 babies named Kailin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 149 US girls were named Kailin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880) and Kaylyn (12,091 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kailin 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 | 15 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,786 | 7 | #10,390 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,938 | 9 | #8,571 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,391 | 7 | #10,318 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,240 | 7 | #10,244 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,176 | 6 | #11,290 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,884 | 7 | #10,278 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,883 | 5 | #13,138 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,666 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,284 | 6 | #11,418 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,135 | 5 | #13,037 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,888 | 8 | #9,207 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,294 | 9 | #8,444 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,631 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,298 | 6 | #11,553 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,620 | 8 | #9,428 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,185 | 8 | #9,424 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,517 | 5 | #13,379 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,153 | 6 | #11,336 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,067 | 10 | #7,397 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,872 | 9 | #7,869 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,689 | 6 | #10,224 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,650 | 10 | #6,578 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,989 | 6 | #9,049 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,648 | 8 | #6,809 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,903 | 8 | #6,679 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,332 | 10 | #5,667 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,247 | 6 | #8,139 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,717 | 7 | #6,901 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,298 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,019 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,737 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,668 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,570 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,428 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,778 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,632 | — | — |
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).