Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #371 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #371 in 2009; #1,644 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Kaylin in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,644 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #371.
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Kaylin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 girls in 2025. Peak: #371 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 869 (2008).
In 2025, 126 US girls were named Kaylin, making it the 1,644th most common girls’ name of the year, down 216 places from #1,428 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 156 girls named Kaylin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #371, reached in 2009. The most girls given the name in a single year was 869, in 2008. For comparison, it was #620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylin in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 19,934 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,560 babies named Kaylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,226 US girls were named Kaylin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 357. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,756 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylin ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #840 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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 Calin, Kalon and Kaelen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Calin (1,390), Kalon (1,079), Kaelen (1,079), Caylen (1,032), Caelin (769), Kaylinn (606), Kallyn (456), Caylyn (445), Caylan (400), Kahlen (334), Kailon (306), Kaelon (302), 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.
No nicknames listed for Kaylin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #840 | #628 |
| Missouri | 6 | #866 | #587 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,059 | #848 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,118 | #428 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,143 | #380 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,285 | #896 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,579 | #698 |
| New York | 6 | #1,951 | #769 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,025 | #445 |
| California | 9 | #2,193 | #677 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,644 | 7 | #10,199 |
| 2024 | 156 | #1,428 | 8 | #9,430 |
| 2023 | 144 | #1,503 | 16 | #5,794 |
| 2022 | 192 | #1,252 | 12 | #7,030 |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,141 | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2020 | 207 | #1,147 | 8 | #9,150 |
| 2019 | 260 | #995 | 12 | #6,987 |
| 2018 | 285 | #937 | 11 | #7,378 |
| 2017 | 283 | #933 | 9 | #8,506 |
| 2016 | 357 | #798 | 5 | #13,238 |
| 2015 | 467 | #620 | 14 | #6,150 |
| 2014 | 567 | #546 | 18 | #5,164 |
| 2013 | 664 | #461 | 15 | #5,805 |
| 2012 | 666 | #468 | 30 | #3,589 |
| 2011 | 772 | #410 | 23 | #4,289 |
| 2010 | 807 | #396 | 22 | #4,444 |
| 2009 | 866 | #371 | 22 | #4,508 |
| 2008 | 869 | #377 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 2007 | 868 | #379 | 26 | #3,959 |
| 2006 | 799 | #402 | 19 | #4,781 |
| 2005 | 751 | #416 | 17 | #4,937 |
| 2004 | 699 | #436 | 21 | #4,191 |
| 2003 | 677 | #442 | 14 | #5,418 |
| 2002 | 587 | #478 | 16 | #4,813 |
| 2001 | 625 | #445 | 18 | #4,384 |
| 2000 | 632 | #450 | 14 | #5,190 |
| 1999 | 602 | #445 | 14 | #4,893 |
| 1998 | 586 | #441 | 28 | #2,892 |
| 1997 | 593 | #432 | 16 | #4,154 |
| 1996 | 496 | #483 | 29 | #2,649 |
| 1995 | 541 | #468 | 22 | #3,146 |
| 1994 | 462 | #532 | 26 | #2,818 |
| 1993 | 419 | #568 | 14 | #4,357 |
| 1992 | 324 | #678 | 18 | #3,536 |
| 1991 | 301 | #704 | 10 | #5,297 |
| 1990 | 292 | #719 | 10 | #5,198 |
| 1989 | 247 | #783 | 7 | #6,591 |
| 1988 | 208 | #858 | 11 | #4,314 |
| 1987 | 159 | #989 | 10 | #4,420 |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,370 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,725 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,036 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,966 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,517 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,980 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,000 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,928 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,893 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,147 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,340 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,250 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,071 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,570 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,094 | — | — |
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).