Meaning not yet researched.
Scotlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,388 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,388 in 2024; #1,412 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Scotlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,412 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,388.
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Scotlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,388 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 163 (2024).
In 2025, 155 US girls were named Scotlyn, making it the 1,412th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,388 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 163 girls named Scotlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,388, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 163. For comparison, it was #2,771 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Scotlyn in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 6 babies. In all, 1,385 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 658 babies named Scotlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 887 US girls were named Scotlyn; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 163. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,369 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Scotlyn ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #345 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Scottlyn (785 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Scotlynn, Scottlynn and Scotlin 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: Scotlynn (583), Scottlynn (368), Scotlin (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 Scotlyn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 7 | #345 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #568 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #595 | — |
| North Carolina | 14 | #727 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #816 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,253 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,382 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,591 | #1,381 |
| New York | 7 | #1,799 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,116 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,365 | #3,715 |
| California | 7 | #2,725 | #3,336 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,107 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,152 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,647 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,355 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,769 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,530 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,649 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,457 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,635 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,032 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,406 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,152 | — | — |
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).