How rare is the name Katlin?

4,993 people in the United States have the first name Katlin, about 1 in 60,491. It ranks #3,917 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

KATLIN

#3,917

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,993
About
1 in 60,491
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,993 people named Katlin, 83.6% reported their origin as White, 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.6% as Black. 97.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Katlin peaked in 1993, when 395 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19812015
Peak year
1993
Births that year
395
In 2015
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,461 babies have been given the name since 1981. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Katlin by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,220. The largest share of babies named Katlin, 63.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#2,186995
1990s#1,2203,352
2000s#3,2961,014
2010s#16,744100
Millennials 1981–9663.4%
Generation Z 1997–1235.9%
2013 and later0.7%

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

Where Katlin is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Katlin has been most common in Tennessee (2.3×), Kentucky (2.2×), and Georgia (2.1×), and least common in New Jersey (0.48×).

4,123 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 Katlin

1 other first name also has 4,993 people.

#3,917 Mikael · 4,993

Either side of Katlin

#3,914 Lai · 4,996#3,916 Shira · 4,995#3,917 Mikael · 4,993#3,919 Serge · 4,986

Spelled almost the same

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

#879 Kaitlin · 51,533#1,755 Katlyn · 17,216#2,915 Katelin · 7,807#5,887 Kaytlin · 2,817#9,084 Katalin · 1,559#40,182 Katlen · 186#43,336 Katilin · 163#44,078 Kathlin · 158

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