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Calyn

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Kaylyn

Calyn has been given to 820 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Calyn, 2024

1 in 557,000

Calyn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Calyn over time

In 2025, Calyn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19812025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Calyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylyn

coinages

What Calyn means

Calyn is a variant of Kaylyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Calyn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Calyn is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 727 girls were recorded with the name Calyn between 1981 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,375 in 1997.

In the United States, 93 boys were recorded with the name Calyn between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,384 in 1998.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Calyn?

Calyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calyn was born before 2002 — so the typical Calyn is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
727
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1990s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (244).

Is Calyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (35)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,375
1997

Spellings of Calyn

Calyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 44.3% against Calyn's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Calyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Calyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,032,659 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Calyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Calyn around the world

Where Calyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Calyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,375
1997
Peak year
2002
35 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
727
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,871
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,384
1998
Peak year
1998
9 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Calyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CallynCalahCaliaCalieCaleahCalinaCalleeCallenCalliaCalleyCaliseCalynnCalaCaleaCaleyCalaniCalvinRylynCaliahCaleeCalebCallanAzlynEvlyn

Sibling names for Calyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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