first name
KATLYN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,216 people named Katlyn, 84.3% reported their origin as White, 6.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Katlyn peaked in 1995, when 1,260 babies got the name.
At least 18,438 babies have been given the name since 1979. 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.
Katlyn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #529. The largest share of babies named Katlyn, 49.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Katlyn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Katlyn has been most common in Kentucky (1.8×), Tennessee (1.8×), and North Carolina (1.7×), and least common in Connecticut (0.37×).
17,023 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Katlyn, most common first.
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