Katlynn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Katlynn has been given to 3,975 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 1999, with 268 recorded.
Babies named Katlynn, 2023
1 in 552,000
Katlynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Katlynn?
Katlynn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Katlynn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katlynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Katlynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Katlynn was born before 1998 — so the typical Katlynn is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 52.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,975
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (2,075).
Is Katlynn 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (268)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.3% average annual change
Spellings of Katlynn
Katlynn is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 28.0% against Katlynn's 0.67%.
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 Katlynn is used
Across 1910–2025, Katlynn was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 58,089 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 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. Katlynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Katlynn around the world
Where Katlynn 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 & Wales2000–2005#3,970in 2005
- Scotland1997–1997#653in 1997
- Canada1991–2005#2,828in 2005
- South Australia1990–1990#691in 1990
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Katlynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Katlynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Katlynn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Katlynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Katlynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.