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Katelyn vs Kathyjo

American parents have registered 134,206 Katelyns since 1880, against 129 Kathyjos. Katelyn is still ahead, with 225 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Katelyn against Kathyjo, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Katelyn Kathyjo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Katelyn for 50 years and Kathyjo for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Katelyn Kathyjo
Total US births 134,206129
Most in one year 5,97517
Babies in 2025 225under 5
Estimated living today 132,000120
Median age today 2653
Peak year 19931970
Best rank 54th girls3,577th girls
Rank in 2025 1,076thunranked
First recorded 19701952
Girls / boys 134,049 / 157129 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kathyjos alive today are over 53; half the Katelyns are over 26. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Katelyn and Kathyjo.