Kailin
Kailin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199757 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1981
- 1,395people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,206 girls have been named Kailin in the United States since 1981, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 57 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 36%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 189 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Kailin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1997 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Hannah. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Kailin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alexipeak 2002
- Klarissapeak 1998
- Kaeleepeak 2000
- Savannapeak 2006
- Emileepeak 2003
- Kaylipeak 2003
- Kyannapeak 1999
- Daysipeak 1996
Other spellings in the data
- Kaylin19,798 ever
- Kailyn14,098 ever
- Kaylynn12,112 ever
- Kaylyn11,982 ever
- Cailyn5,509 ever
- Kailynn4,654 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.