Katryn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Katryn has been given to 336 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1993, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Katryn, 2016
1 in 612,000
Katryn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Katryn?
Katryn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Katryn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Katryns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Katryn was born before 1989 — so the typical Katryn is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 336
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (89).
Is Katryn 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 1993 (17)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.6% average annual change
Spellings of Katryn
Katryn is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 38.6% against Katryn's 0.01%.
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 Katryn is used
Across 1910–2025, Katryn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Katryn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Katryn around the world
Where Katryn 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 & Wales1997–2007#5,201in 2007
- Ireland1969–1969#443in 1969
- Canada1991–1998#2,262in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Katryn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Katryn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Katryn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.