Meaning not yet researched.
Katlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #223 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #223 in 1995; #8,612 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Katlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,612 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #223.
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Katlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #223 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 1,260 (1995).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Katlyn, making it the 8,612th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,084 places from #5,528 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 23 girls named Katlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #223, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,260. For comparison, it was #3,277 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Katlyn in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 7 babies. In all, 18,438 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,718 babies named Katlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 192 US girls were named Katlyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaitlyn (166,921 babies since 1880), Kaitlin (57,430 babies since 1880), Caitlyn (52,637 babies since 1880) and Kaitlynn (16,424 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Katlynne and Kathlyne 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: Katlynne (213), Kathlyne (68).
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 Katlyn 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 | 12 | #8,612 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,852 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,457 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,636 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,237 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,412 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 2009 | 195 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2008 | 217 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2007 | 275 | #978 | — | — |
| 2006 | 348 | #788 | — | — |
| 2005 | 457 | #619 | — | — |
| 2004 | 515 | #553 | — | — |
| 2003 | 566 | #505 | — | — |
| 2002 | 694 | #418 | — | — |
| 2001 | 848 | #352 | — | — |
| 2000 | 962 | #330 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,071 | #290 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,183 | #262 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,232 | #242 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,186 | #236 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,260 | #223 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,132 | #243 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,066 | #260 | — | — |
| 1992 | 945 | #297 | — | — |
| 1991 | 864 | #312 | — | — |
| 1990 | 779 | #343 | — | — |
| 1989 | 615 | #401 | 5 | #8,572 |
| 1988 | 505 | #448 | — | — |
| 1987 | 294 | #641 | — | — |
| 1986 | 201 | #829 | — | — |
| 1985 | 141 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,069 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,454 | — | — |
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).