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Kaylin

Kaylin reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 377, and has been recorded 19,934 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,643rd. About 20,000 Kaylins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kaylin boys named Kaylin

By the numbers

Total US births
19,934
Estimated living today
20,000
Median age today
20
Peak year
2008
Best rank
377th
Rank in 2025
1,643rd
First recorded
1953
Girls / boys
19,307 / 627

How old the living Kaylins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 19,934 babies given the name since 1953, about 20,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,100 of them are children and 9 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Kaylins

People named Kaylin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Kaylin is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kaylin is most concentrated in Florida (1.9×), Georgia (1.6×), Louisiana (1.5×), Maryland (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Kaylin peaked:

All the names of 2008

Kaylin elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Kaylin 192 1,731st
Scotland girls Kaylin 62 392nd
Ireland girls Kaylin 35 597th
France girls Kaylin 10 5,391st
Belgium girls Kaylin 7 1,062nd
England and Wales boys Kaylin 4 2,857th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kaylin: rank by region

In 2019, Kaylin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Kaylin 635 7

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Kaylin among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Kaylin 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Kaylin against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Kaylin with a name of your own

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.