Khalyn
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Khalyn has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2014, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Khalyn, 2014
1 in 530,000
Khalyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Khalyn over time
In 2015, Khalyn 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 Khalyn?
Khalyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 530,000
- 7 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,053 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Khalyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khalyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Khalyn was born before 2000 — so the typical Khalyn is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Khalyn 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
- —
- 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 2014 (7)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Khalyn
Khalyn is not the most common spelling — Adalyn is, with 16.4% against Khalyn's 0.02%.
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.
Khalyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Khalyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Khalyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.