Meaning not yet researched.
Kalyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #628 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #628 in 1994; #6,217 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,217 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #628.
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Kalyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #628 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 354 (1993).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Kalyn, making it the 6,217th most common girls’ name of the year, down 342 places from #5,875 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 21 girls named Kalyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #628, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 354, in 1993. For comparison, it was #2,365 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalyn in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 6 babies. In all, 7,793 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,975 babies named Kalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 278 US girls were named Kalyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 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 Kaylynn (12,257 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaliyan and Kaloyan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaliyan (81), Kaloyan (41).
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 Kalyn 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 | 19 | #6,217 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,945 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,720 | 5 | #13,298 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,060 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,108 | 5 | #13,131 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,365 | 5 | #13,051 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,431 | 11 | #7,289 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,997 | 9 | #8,451 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,697 | 5 | #13,332 |
| 2010 | 170 | #1,368 | 12 | #6,896 |
| 2009 | 214 | #1,177 | 7 | #10,429 |
| 2008 | 211 | #1,208 | 13 | #6,592 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,192 | 9 | #8,570 |
| 2006 | 223 | #1,120 | 7 | #10,121 |
| 2005 | 234 | #1,032 | 13 | #6,045 |
| 2004 | 242 | #984 | 8 | #8,534 |
| 2003 | 229 | #1,011 | 7 | #9,160 |
| 2002 | 242 | #925 | 7 | #8,928 |
| 2001 | 240 | #926 | 6 | #9,916 |
| 2000 | 256 | #860 | 14 | #5,187 |
| 1999 | 258 | #839 | 11 | #5,855 |
| 1998 | 262 | #813 | 12 | #5,313 |
| 1997 | 265 | #785 | 21 | #3,401 |
| 1996 | 271 | #775 | 18 | #3,756 |
| 1995 | 270 | #754 | 25 | #2,885 |
| 1994 | 350 | #628 | 16 | #4,014 |
| 1993 | 354 | #633 | 17 | #3,743 |
| 1992 | 275 | #759 | 18 | #3,533 |
| 1991 | 271 | #760 | 14 | #4,127 |
| 1990 | 231 | #854 | 16 | #3,696 |
| 1989 | 230 | #826 | 16 | #3,532 |
| 1988 | 202 | #873 | 14 | #3,615 |
| 1987 | 180 | #922 | 10 | #4,418 |
| 1986 | 127 | #1,136 | 13 | #3,546 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1984 | 88 | #1,357 | 8 | #4,769 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,573 | 9 | #4,320 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,901 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,300 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,209 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,210 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,560 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,347 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,141 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,596 | — | — |
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).