girls:
18.4k births since 1979
#1088 (81st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1989
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
18.4k births since 1979
#1892 (76th percentile)
The name Katlyn is the #1,892 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,403 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 75.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,088 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 18,398 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1989.
Katlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 1989 for boys).
The name Katlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Katlyn reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 74.8% percentile (ranked #215) with 656 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 656 births per million (ranked 74.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Katlyn ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Katlyn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katlyn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Katlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Katlyn is pronounced as KAT-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAT-luhn, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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