Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 134 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 2009; #1,576 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaylynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,576 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #513.
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Kaylynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 134 girls in 2025. Peak: #513 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 590 (2009).
In 2025, 134 US girls were named Kaylynn, making it the 1,576th most common girls’ name of the year, down 44 places from #1,532 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 140 girls named Kaylynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #513, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 590. For comparison, it was #740 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylynn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 8 babies. In all, 12,257 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,246 babies named Kaylynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,059 US girls were named Kaylynn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 313. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,995 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylynn ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #691 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylyn (12,091 babies since 1880), Kaylin (19,934 babies since 1880), Kaelyn (15,648 babies since 1880) and Kailyn (14,351 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaylynne, Caylynn and Kalynne 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: Kaylynne (632), Caylynn (368), Kalynne (271), Kaylaann (173), Kayleann (79), Kaylanne (5), Kalyann (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 Kaylynn 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 14 | #691 | #419 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #799 | #482 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,006 | #407 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,119 | #309 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,141 | #515 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,459 | #1,126 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,520 | #743 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,574 | #744 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,780 | #1,085 |
| New York | 6 | #1,952 | #1,550 |
| California | 9 | #2,194 | #1,512 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,303 | #947 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2024 | 140 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 2023 | 167 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2022 | 167 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2020 | 216 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2019 | 247 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 2018 | 252 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2016 | 313 | #895 | — | — |
| 2015 | 380 | #740 | — | — |
| 2014 | 447 | #640 | — | — |
| 2013 | 470 | #600 | — | — |
| 2012 | 459 | #621 | — | — |
| 2011 | 496 | #582 | — | — |
| 2010 | 512 | #570 | — | — |
| 2009 | 590 | #513 | — | — |
| 2008 | 580 | #528 | — | — |
| 2007 | 502 | #599 | — | — |
| 2006 | 464 | #624 | — | — |
| 2005 | 411 | #677 | 5 | #12,413 |
| 2004 | 418 | #656 | — | — |
| 2003 | 349 | #735 | — | — |
| 2002 | 301 | #783 | — | — |
| 2001 | 319 | #753 | — | — |
| 2000 | 307 | #750 | — | — |
| 1999 | 288 | #770 | — | — |
| 1998 | 281 | #767 | — | — |
| 1997 | 289 | #738 | — | — |
| 1996 | 254 | #808 | — | — |
| 1995 | 248 | #802 | — | — |
| 1994 | 226 | #866 | — | — |
| 1993 | 232 | #844 | — | — |
| 1992 | 206 | #943 | — | — |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1989 | 132 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1986 | 49 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,730 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,377 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,023 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,031 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,338 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,606 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,169 | — | — |
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).