girls:
5.3k births since 1981
#2303 (60th percentile)
boys:
126 births since 1984
#4460 (3rd percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1981
#3691 (52nd percentile)
The name Katlin is the #3,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,461 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 52.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,303 (59.7% percentile) for all time with 5,335 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #4,460 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 1984.
Katlin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Katlin is available in 35 out of the 35 years between 1981 and 2015 (35 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 Katlin has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Katlin reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 40.5% percentile (ranked #515) with 195 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 195 births per million (ranked 40.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Katlin reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #743) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% 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 "Katlin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Katlin is pronounced as KAT-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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