Kelyn
Kelyn reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 5,906, and has been recorded 764 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 750 Kelyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kelyn boys named Kelyn
Girls and boys called Kelyn
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 428 girls and 336 boys in all, and in 2013 the split was 13 to 13.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 764
- Estimated living today
- 750
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 5,906th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1981
- Girls / boys
- 428 / 336
How old the living Kelyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 764 babies given the name since 1981, about 750 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Kelyns
- Kelyn Rowe (born 1991)American soccer player
People named Kelyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2006
The most popular girls’ names the year Kelyn peaked:
Kelyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kelyn | 10 | 3,996th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Kelyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.