girls:
133.5k births since 1970
#296 (95th percentile)
boys:
157 births since 1986
#4429 (3rd percentile)
overall:
133.7k births since 1970
#556 (93rd percentile)
The name Katelyn is the #556 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 133,680 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 92.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #296 (94.8% percentile) for all time with 133,523 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,429 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 157 births since 1986.
Katelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1986 for boys).
The name Katelyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Katelyn reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 94.3% percentile (ranked #52) with 2,747 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3,030 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Katelyn ranks #648 for girls (31.6% percentile) with 178 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Katelyn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katelyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Katelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.7% confident that Katelyn is pronounced as KAYT-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAYT-luhn, at 8.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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