Meaning not yet researched.
Kalynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,257 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,257 in 1995; #7,301 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,301 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,257.
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Kalynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,257 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 145 (2008).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Kalynn, making it the 7,301st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,776 places from #5,525 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 23 girls named Kalynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,257, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 145, in 2008. For comparison, it was #2,225 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalynn in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 3,722 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,189 babies named Kalynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 328 US girls were named Kalynn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. 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 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). Rarer spellings such as Kaliann and Calynne are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaliann (190), Calynne (5).
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 Kalynn 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 | #7,301 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,525 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,472 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,843 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,082 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 2006 | 121 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2001 | 95 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,257 | 10 | #5,705 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,421 | 5 | #9,562 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,422 | 6 | #8,147 |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,464 | 5 | #9,111 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,776 | 7 | #6,122 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,707 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,934 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,902 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,641 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,167 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,981 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,673 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,874 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,639 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,000 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,579 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,123 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,174 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,876 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,265 | — | — |
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).