Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #519 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #519 in 1997; #2,525 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaylyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,525 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #519.
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Kaylyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #519 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 462 (2007).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Kaylyn, making it the 2,525th most common girls’ name of the year, up 345 places from #2,870 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 58 girls named Kaylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #519, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 462, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,272 in 2015 and #5,690 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylyn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 12,091 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,190 babies named Kaylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 964 US girls were named Kaylyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylyn ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #613 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylynn (12,257 babies since 1880), Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880) and Kailyn (14,351 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 Kaylyn 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #613 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,668 | #1,125 |
| New York | 5 | #2,256 | #1,549 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,325 | #1,152 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,564 | #1,129 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,543 | 5 | #13,335 |
| 2021 | 97 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2015 | 192 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 2013 | 255 | #985 | — | — |
| 2012 | 277 | #927 | — | — |
| 2011 | 354 | #769 | — | — |
| 2010 | 356 | #770 | — | — |
| 2009 | 413 | #703 | — | — |
| 2008 | 411 | #723 | — | — |
| 2007 | 462 | #642 | — | — |
| 2006 | 409 | #693 | — | — |
| 2005 | 420 | #662 | 5 | #12,412 |
| 2004 | 396 | #690 | 7 | #9,466 |
| 2003 | 408 | #651 | — | — |
| 2002 | 430 | #600 | — | — |
| 2001 | 392 | #644 | — | — |
| 2000 | 437 | #589 | — | — |
| 1999 | 443 | #568 | 5 | #10,790 |
| 1998 | 437 | #563 | — | — |
| 1997 | 462 | #519 | — | — |
| 1996 | 419 | #559 | — | — |
| 1995 | 436 | #546 | 6 | #8,349 |
| 1994 | 459 | #536 | 5 | #9,578 |
| 1993 | 398 | #592 | — | — |
| 1992 | 383 | #595 | 5 | #9,132 |
| 1991 | 287 | #724 | — | — |
| 1990 | 315 | #678 | — | — |
| 1989 | 263 | #749 | — | — |
| 1988 | 197 | #889 | — | — |
| 1987 | 160 | #984 | — | — |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,422 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,726 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,729 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,467 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,354 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,260 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,396 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,424 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,529 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,556 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,412 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,356 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,635 | — | — |
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).