How rare is the name Kaelynn?

3,694 people in the United States have the first name Kaelynn, about 1 in 81,763. It ranks #4,857 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

KAELYNN

#4,857

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,694
About
1 in 81,763
This common or more
84.6%
Who bears it

Of the 3,694 people named Kaelynn, 61.1% reported their origin as White, 13.4% as Black and 12.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kaelynn peaked in 2012, when 288 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19822025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
288
In 2025*
79 ▼73%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,052 babies have been given the name since 1982. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kaelynn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,935. The largest share of babies named Kaelynn, 49.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1980s#12,66267
1990s#4,739428
2000s#2,5481,467
2010s#1,9352,406
2020s#3,256684
Millennials 1981–966.1%
Generation Z 1997–1249.6%
2013 and later44.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kaelynn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kaelynn has been most common in Texas (2.1×), Florida (2×), and Georgia (1.7×), and least common in New York (0.57×).

3,212 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Kaelynn

2 other first names also have 3,694 people.

#4,857 Britni · 3,694#4,857 Sherryl · 3,694

Either side of Kaelynn

#4,856 Kerstin · 3,698#4,857 Britni · 3,694#4,857 Sherryl · 3,694#4,860 Jacy · 3,693

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kaelynn, most common first.

#2,066 Kaelyn · 13,147#2,221 Kailyn · 11,777#2,380 Kaylyn · 10,517#2,478 Kaylynn · 9,933#3,173 Kalyn · 6,863#5,185 Kailynn · 3,360#5,341 Kaelin · 3,237#5,554 Kalynn · 3,063

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