Katelyn
Katelyn is ranked 931st among girls in 2024 (283 births). Its best rank was 52nd, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- #931down 81 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2830.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19935,975 births
- Best rank
- #52in 2001
- Since 1970
- 133,817people given the name
The story in the numbers
133,817 girls have been named Katelyn in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 5,975 births — 0.33% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 173 → 931).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 39%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Katelyn was the 54th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Katelyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alyssapeak 1999
- Allyssapeak 1998
- Ashlenpeak 1995
- Keairapeak 2005
- Jasmynepeak 2000
- Caylapeak 1999
- Kaleypeak 2003
- Katelynnepeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
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.