girls:
4.3k births since 1900
#2623 (54th percentile)
boys:
67 births since 1924
#4519 (1st percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1900
#4156 (46th percentile)
The name Carlyn is the #4,156 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,343 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,623 (54.1% percentile) for all time with 4,276 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,519 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1924.
Carlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1924 for boys). Birth data for Carlyn is available in 115 out of the 123 years between 1900 and 2022 (115 years for girls and 11 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carlyn reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 10.1% percentile (ranked #564) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 47 births per million (ranked 10.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Carlyn reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #519) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carlyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Carlyn is pronounced as KAHR-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-luhn, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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