Kristalynn

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kristalynn has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1990, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kristalynn, 2020

1 in 668,000

Kristalynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Kristalynn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kristalynn 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kristalynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kristalynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kristalynn was born before 2000 — so the typical Kristalynn is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Kristalynn 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 1990 (10)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,936
1985

Spellings of Kristalynn

Kristalynn is not the most common spelling — Krislynn is, with 47.9% against Kristalynn's 10.5%.

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.

Kristalynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,936
1985
Peak year
1990
10 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kristalynn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Kristalynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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