Meaning not yet researched.
Kellyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,354 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,354 in 1985; #11,426 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Kellyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,426 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #1,354.
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Kellyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,354 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 97 (1985).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Kellyn, making it the 11,426th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,621 places from #6,805 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 17 girls named Kellyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,354, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #3,810 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Kellyn, making it the 13,006th most common boys’ name of the year, up 303 places from #13,309 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Kellyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,895, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 19. For comparison, it was #8,396 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kellyn in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 9 babies. In all, 2,209 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 10% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 597 babies named Kellyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 191 US girls were named Kellyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880), Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880) and Kellyann (1,843 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keilynn, Kealynn and Kialyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Keilynn (123), Kealynn (12), Kialyn (6).
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 Kellyn 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 | 8 | #11,426 | 5 | #13,006 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,805 | 5 | #13,309 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,093 | 8 | #9,369 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,283 | 9 | #8,665 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,255 | 8 | #9,278 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,950 | 7 | #10,105 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,839 | 15 | #5,971 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,578 | 9 | #8,518 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,247 | 5 | #13,307 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,482 | 9 | #8,502 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,810 | 9 | #8,396 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,622 | 11 | #7,310 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,497 | 19 | #4,895 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,294 | 8 | #9,315 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,523 | 8 | #9,209 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,031 | 13 | #6,555 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,732 | 8 | #9,453 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,951 | 7 | #10,369 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,297 | 6 | #10,823 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,518 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,194 | 6 | #8,734 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,357 | 5 | #9,807 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,906 | 7 | #7,406 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,700 | 7 | #7,220 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,237 | 5 | #9,153 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1989 | 73 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,626 | 7 | #6,138 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,470 | 7 | #5,662 |
| 1985 | 97 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,738 | 7 | #5,284 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,425 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,162 | 5 | #6,778 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,622 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,355 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,820 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,658 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,275 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,984 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,785 | — | — |
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).