Meaning not yet researched.
Kathlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #559 in 1914.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #559 in 1914; #4,818 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kathlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,818 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1914, at #559.
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Kathlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #559 in 1914 · most girls in one year: 125 (1951).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Kathlyn, making it the 4,818th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,083 places from #2,735 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 63 girls named Kathlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #559, reached in 1914. The most girls given the name in a single year was 125, in 1951. For comparison, it was #5,933 in 2015 and #878 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kathlyn in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 5 babies. In all, 5,156 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 851 babies named Kathlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 174 US girls were named Kathlyn; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kathleen (715,336 babies since 1880), Kaitlyn (166,921 babies since 1880), Katlyn (18,438 babies since 1880) and Katlin (5,461 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 Kathlyn 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 | 28 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,736 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,443 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,919 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,687 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,415 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,364 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,056 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,630 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,933 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,252 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,589 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,019 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,442 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,085 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,033 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,419 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1956 | 80 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1955 | 77 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1954 | 80 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1953 | 110 | #898 | — | — |
| 1952 | 102 | #916 | — | — |
| 1951 | 125 | #796 | — | — |
| 1950 | 102 | #878 | — | — |
| 1949 | 116 | #809 | — | — |
| 1948 | 117 | #797 | — | — |
| 1947 | 107 | #848 | — | — |
| 1946 | 88 | #888 | — | — |
| 1945 | 65 | #960 | — | — |
| 1944 | 72 | #901 | — | — |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1924 | 58 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1923 | 63 | #925 | — | — |
| 1922 | 67 | #893 | — | — |
| 1921 | 81 | #819 | — | — |
| 1920 | 66 | #900 | — | — |
| 1919 | 65 | #873 | — | — |
| 1918 | 77 | #818 | — | — |
| 1917 | 73 | #809 | — | — |
| 1916 | 86 | #731 | — | — |
| 1915 | 108 | #633 | — | — |
| 1914 | 101 | #559 | — | — |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,664 | — | — |
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).