Meaning not yet researched.
Kailynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #899 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #899 in 2011; #2,343 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kailynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,343 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #899.
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Kailynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #899 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 290 (2011).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Kailynn, making it the 2,343rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 296 places from #2,047 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 95 girls named Kailynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #899, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 290. For comparison, it was #1,128 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kailynn in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 7 babies. In all, 4,747 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,129 babies named Kailynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,249 US girls were named Kailynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 184. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kailynn ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,281 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880), Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880), Kaylynn (12,257 babies since 1880) and Kaylyn (12,091 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 Kailynn 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,281 | #1,119 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,309 | #1,317 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,315 | #809 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,774 | #815 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,514 | #1,164 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,953 | 8 | #9,342 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,910 | 7 | #10,320 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2018 | 154 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2017 | 159 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2015 | 226 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2014 | 258 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2013 | 235 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2012 | 271 | #943 | — | — |
| 2011 | 290 | #899 | — | — |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2009 | 247 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 2007 | 209 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1995 | 56 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,948 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,982 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,020 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,092 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,728 | — | — |
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).