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Katelynn

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Katelynn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 210th, in 1998.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
810.01% of girls
Peak year
19981,457 births
Best rank
#210in 1998
Since 1979
30,615people given the name
Babies named Katelynn, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

30,615 girls have been named Katelynn in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 1,457 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 40%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Katelynn
1970s5
1980s1,624
1990s11,306
2000s12,198
2010s5,012
2020s470

In 1998, its biggest year

Katelynn was the 210th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.

Names that rose and fell with Katelynn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.