# Alyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 798 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 321 / 477 (60% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19 | 6,666 |
| 2011 | 14 | 8,227 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,232 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,057 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,030 |
| 2015 | 18 | 6,736 |
| 2016 | 9 | 10,924 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,055 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,188 |
| 2019 | 10 | 9,776 |
| 2020 | 6 | 13,539 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,610 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6,729 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13,583 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,005 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | 4,653 |
| 1982 | 6 | 5,652 |
| 1983 | 6 | 5,508 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,250 |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,489 |
| 1993 | 5 | 8,742 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,066 |
| 1999 | 6 | 8,748 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10,745 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9,170 |
| 2010 | 6 | 10,834 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,375 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,238 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,617 |
| 2025 | 6 | 10,765 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |

## People named Alyn

- Emily Alyn Lind, American actress (born 2002)
- Natalie Alyn Lind, American actress
- Barbara Alyn Woods, American actress
- Alyvia Alyn Lind, American child actress
- E. Alyn Warren, actor (1874-1940)
- Alyn McCauley, Canadian ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.