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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

Kellyn rank by birth year, 1964–2025Kellyn ranked #4,636 in 1964 and #10,917 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,350, in 1985.#10,000#10,917best #1,350 in 1985198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1964–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

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.

Babies named Kellyn per yearPeaks at 97 births in 1985.97 in 19850198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

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

Ages of living people named KellynHalf of living Kellyns are older than 25 and half younger.median 250204060
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Kellyn a boy's or a girl's name?

90% girls10% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

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

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
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.

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