girls:
7.4k births since 1956
#1896 (67th percentile)
boys:
381 births since 1983
#4205 (8th percentile)
overall:
7.8k births since 1956
#3063 (60th percentile)
The name Kalyn is the #3,063 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,752 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 60.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,896 (66.8% percentile) for all time with 7,371 births since 1956. For boys, it ranks #4,205 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 381 births since 1983.
Kalyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Kalyn is available in 65 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (65 years for girls and 33 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 Kalyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kalyn reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 38.0% percentile (ranked #524) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 180 births per million (ranked 37.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kalyn ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kalyn reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #780) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kalyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kalyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Kalyn is pronounced as KAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-luhn, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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