# Kalyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kalyn/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,793 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 381 / 7,412 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 124 | 1,697 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 98 | 1,997 |
| 2014 | 75 | 2,431 |
| 2015 | 78 | 2,365 |
| 2016 | 47 | 3,398 |
| 2017 | 43 | 3,591 |
| 2018 | 34 | 4,193 |
| 2019 | 35 | 4,108 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4,819 |
| 2021 | 20 | 6,060 |
| 2022 | 22 | 5,720 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9,945 |
| 2024 | 21 | 5,875 |
| 2025 | 19 | 6,217 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 8,928 |
| 2003 | 7 | 9,160 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,534 |
| 2005 | 13 | 6,045 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,121 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,570 |
| 2008 | 13 | 6,592 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,429 |
| 2010 | 12 | 6,896 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,332 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,451 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,289 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,051 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,131 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,298 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |

## 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.