Karalynn

#12,521 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Karalynn has been given to 765 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #12,521 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Karalynn, 2025

1 in 474,000

Karalynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Karalynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,521
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karalynn 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karalynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karalynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karalynn was born before 2007 — so the typical Karalynn is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
765
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (251).

Is Karalynn 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
−2,637
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,755
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,735
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.24×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.1%
Peak was 2010 (41)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,779
2010

Spellings of Karalynn

Karalynn is not the most common spelling — Adalynn is, with 19.4% against Karalynn's 0.43%.

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 Karalynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Karalynn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,088,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Karalynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karalynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,521
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,755
Best rank ever
#3,779
2010
Peak year
2010
41 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
765
Count in 2025
7

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