Yailyn

#17,162 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Yailyn has been given to 337 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #17,162 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Yailyn, 2025

1 in 663,000

Yailyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,162
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yailyn 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yailyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yailyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yailyn was born before 2009 — so the typical Yailyn is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
337
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Choose a decade

2000s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Yailyn 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
−6,088
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,747
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 2001 (19)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,057
2001

Spellings of Yailyn

Yailyn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 40.2% against Yailyn's 0.04%.

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 Yailyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Yailyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,020,699 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Yailyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yailyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,162
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,057
2001
Peak year
2001
19 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
337
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Yailyn

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