girls:
2.4k births since 1924
#3562 (38th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1996
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1924
#5453 (30th percentile)
The name Karlyn is the #5,453 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,367 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 29.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,562 (37.7% percentile) for all time with 2,360 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1996.
Karlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Karlyn is available in 93 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (93 years for girls and 1 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 Karlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karlyn reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #813) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karlyn ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 22.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karlyn reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karlyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Karlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Karlyn is pronounced as KAHR-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-luhn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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