Kairyn
#5,716 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kairyn has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #5,716 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Kairyn, 2025
1 in 207,000
Kairyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kairyn over time
In 2025, Kairyn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Kairyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,716
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kairyn 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kairyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kairyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kairyn was born before 2020 — so the typical Kairyn is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 57.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 182
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Kairyn 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
- −560
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +416
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,428
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.5%
- Peak was 2023 (26)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kairyn
Kairyn is not the most common spelling — Kaiden is, with 31.8% against Kairyn's 0.11%.
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.
Kairyn around the world
Where Kairyn 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.
- England & Wales2011–2015#4,747in 2015
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kairyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kairyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kairyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.