girls:
1.1k births since 1988
#4580 (20th percentile)
boys:
230 births since 1996
#4356 (5th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1988
#6377 (18th percentile)
The name Keilyn is the #6,377 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,366 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,580 (19.8% percentile) for all time with 1,136 births since 1988. For boys, it ranks #4,356 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 230 births since 1996.
Keilyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Keilyn is available in 33 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (33 years for girls and 25 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 Keilyn has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Keilyn were girls.
For girls, Keilyn reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #883) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Keilyn ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 87.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Keilyn reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #866) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% 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 "Keilyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Keilyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.7% confident that Keilyn is pronounced as KAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-leen, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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