Kellyn
Girls' name · Late 20th-century
- Living in the US
- ~2,200 survival-weighted estimate
- 2025 rank
- #10,917 among girls
- Births in 2025
- 13 2,209 since 1880
- Typical age
- 25 years, median
Kellyn popularity over time
The high point was 1985: 97 births recorded as Kellyn. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1964. The 2025 position is #10,917, on 13 births.
Over ten years the count has fallen 73%. Year on year the rank dropped by 4275.
How many people are named Kellyn?
About 2,200 people named Kellyn are alive in the United States today. That is out of 2,209 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 2,000 women and 220 men.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.
How old is the average Kellyn?
Half of living Kellyns are older than 25, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Kellyn a late 20th-century name.
Your Kellyn
Is Kellyn a boy's or a girl's name?
The name leans girls, but 29.5% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 89.8% of births under the name were girls.
Notable people named Kellyn
| Name | Known for | Years | Editions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kellyn Acosta | American soccer player | 1995 | 30 | |
People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.
Names similar to Kellyn
Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.
Related pages
- All names from 1985
- Top names of 2025
- Names beginning with K
- Every year, 1880 to 2025
- Names by state
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