Kailynn
#2,343 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kailynn has been given to 4,747 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #2,343 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 290 recorded.
Babies named Kailynn, 2025
1 in 42,500
Kailynn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kailynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,500
- 78 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 20,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,343
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,461 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kailynn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kailynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kailynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kailynn was born before 2011 — so the typical Kailynn is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,732
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (2,129).
Is Kailynn 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
- −296
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −723
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,215
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.9%
- Peak was 2011 (290)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kailynn
Kailynn is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 32.0% against Kailynn's 0.91%.
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 Kailynn is used
Across 2016–2025, Kailynn was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 14,452 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 5,263
- 2Georgia1 in 5,882
- 3Florida1 in 8,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 10,000
- 5Michigan1 in 10,000
- 6Mississippi1 in 10,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 10,000
- 8Ohio1 in 10,000
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.
Kailynn around the world
Where Kailynn 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.
- France2015–2016#7,269in 2016
- Canada1995–2023#3,391in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kailynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kailynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kailynn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kailynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kailynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.