Scottlyn
#1,664 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Scottlyn has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,664 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 125 recorded.
Babies named Scottlyn, 2025
1 in 26,500
Scottlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Scottlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 26,500
- 125 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 12,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,664
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,384 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Scottlyn 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 18,384 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Scottlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Scottlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Scottlyn was born before 2021 — so the typical Scottlyn is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 785
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.7% of all recorded uses (469).
Is Scottlyn 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
- +314
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,871
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,470
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.47×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (125)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Scottlyn
Scottlyn is not the most common spelling — Scotlyn is, with 50.3% against Scottlyn's 28.5%.
Where Scottlyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Scottlyn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 44,178 across all states with data. It was least common in California (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.
Scottlyn around the world
Where Scottlyn 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.
- Canada2016–2024#1,968in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Scottlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Scottlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Scottlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.