Katlyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Katlyne has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1995, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Katlyne, 2009
1 in 478,000
Katlyne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Katlyne?
Katlyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 478,000
- 8 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,006 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Katlyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katlyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Katlynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Katlyne was born before 1997 — so the typical Katlyne is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 65.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 269
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 65.4% of all recorded uses (176).
Is Katlyne 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1995 (26)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.4% average annual change
Spellings of Katlyne
Katlyne is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 33.5% against Katlyne's 0.05%.
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.
Katlyne around the world
Where Katlyne 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.
- France1978–2022#7,587in 2022
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Katlyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Katlyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Katlyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.