Scotlyn
#1,412 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Scotlyn has been given to 1,385 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,412 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 163 recorded.
Babies named Scotlyn, 2025
1 in 21,400
Scotlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Scotlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 21,400
- 155 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 10,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,412
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 14,826 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Scotlyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 14,826 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Scotlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Scotlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Scotlyn was born before 2019 — so the typical Scotlyn is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,385
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (658).
Is Scotlyn 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
- −24
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,243
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,359
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.42×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.1%
- Peak was 2024 (163)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.0% average annual change
Spellings of Scotlyn
Scotlyn is the most-used spelling, taking 33.9% of the 4,084 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Scotlyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Scotlyn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 26,966 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
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.
Scotlyn around the world
Where Scotlyn 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.
- Canada2011–2024#1,109in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Scotlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Scotlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Scotlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.