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Kaitlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #30 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #30 in 2000; #802 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaitlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#802 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #30.
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Kaitlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 girls in 2025. Peak: #30 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 8,759 (2000).
In 2025, 340 US girls were named Kaitlyn, making it the 802nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 152 places from #650 in 2024. That is 113 fewer than the 453 girls named Kaitlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #30, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,759. For comparison, it was #197 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaitlyn in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 166,921 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 67,649 babies named Kaitlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,333 US girls were named Kaitlyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 999. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaitlyn ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #443 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kathleen (715,336 babies since 1880), Katelyn (134,206 babies since 1880), Caitlin (112,426 babies since 1880) and Cathleen (29,933 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaitlen, Catlyn and Kaetlyn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kait and Kaitie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kaitlen (768), Catlyn (607), Kaetlyn (536), Kaithlyn (389), Caitlen (383), Kaitlyne (318), Katlyne (269), Kaytlen (206), Kaitlinn (188), Caytlyn (157), Kaetlin (120), Kaytlan (87), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 5 | #443 | #231 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #473 | #85 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #484 | #162 |
| New York | 31 | #539 | #150 |
| Colorado | 10 | #562 | #189 |
| Indiana | 11 | #594 | #251 |
| Alabama | 8 | #603 | #147 |
| Ohio | 17 | #605 | #232 |
| Iowa | 5 | #621 | #313 |
| Maryland | 8 | #623 | #327 |
| Illinois | 15 | #643 | #214 |
| Michigan | 12 | #659 | #253 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #665 | #183 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #668 | #194 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #774 | #244 |
| Texas | 38 | #788 | #196 |
| Florida | 20 | #814 | #222 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #847 | #243 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #868 | #218 |
| California | 31 | #924 | #179 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,111 | #191 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,138 | #183 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #802 | — | — |
| 2024 | 453 | #650 | — | — |
| 2023 | 483 | #619 | — | — |
| 2022 | 470 | #630 | — | — |
| 2021 | 520 | #583 | — | — |
| 2020 | 624 | #488 | — | — |
| 2019 | 701 | #444 | — | — |
| 2018 | 805 | #386 | — | — |
| 2017 | 938 | #346 | — | — |
| 2016 | 999 | #331 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,663 | #197 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,060 | #160 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2,379 | #134 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,601 | #118 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,908 | #100 | — | — |
| 2010 | 3,303 | #90 | — | — |
| 2009 | 4,207 | #67 | 5 | #13,473 |
| 2008 | 5,117 | #53 | 9 | #8,656 |
| 2007 | 5,551 | #44 | 9 | #8,565 |
| 2006 | 6,074 | #41 | 11 | #7,179 |
| 2005 | 6,521 | #34 | 5 | #12,368 |
| 2004 | 6,988 | #33 | 35 | #2,926 |
| 2003 | 7,547 | #32 | 11 | #6,496 |
| 2002 | 7,981 | #32 | 7 | #8,924 |
| 2001 | 8,164 | #31 | 8 | #7,929 |
| 2000 | 8,759 | #30 | 12 | #5,743 |
| 1999 | 8,158 | #33 | 10 | #6,270 |
| 1998 | 7,937 | #35 | 8 | #7,202 |
| 1997 | 7,005 | #41 | 10 | #5,870 |
| 1996 | 7,241 | #40 | 7 | #7,546 |
| 1995 | 7,385 | #42 | 8 | #6,680 |
| 1994 | 6,686 | #48 | 6 | #8,278 |
| 1993 | 6,956 | #46 | 6 | #8,141 |
| 1992 | 7,480 | #42 | 14 | #4,224 |
| 1991 | 4,407 | #82 | 7 | #6,903 |
| 1990 | 4,312 | #78 | 6 | #7,630 |
| 1989 | 3,392 | #95 | 9 | #5,386 |
| 1988 | 2,688 | #106 | 10 | #4,604 |
| 1987 | 1,706 | #163 | 5 | #7,559 |
| 1986 | 1,207 | #219 | 7 | #5,644 |
| 1985 | 879 | #284 | 7 | #5,452 |
| 1984 | 449 | #466 | — | — |
| 1983 | 274 | #632 | — | — |
| 1982 | 138 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1981 | 92 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,765 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,587 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,502 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,872 | — | — |
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).