Decklyn
Mostly boys · DEK-lin · Irish
Decklyn is a name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Decklyn mean?
Irish: spelling of Deklyn; respelling of Declan
A respelling of Declan, after Saint Declan, an early Irish saint associated with Ardmore in County Waterford.
- Say it
- DEK-lin
Meaning borrowed from Deklyn.
Is Decklyn a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Decklyn has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US.
How popular is Decklyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,606among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Decklyn, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,568th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the boys named Decklyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,746 boys in the US were given Decklyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #148, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.
In 2022, 27% of the babies named Decklyn in the US were girls.
Decklyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,566 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,243 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,568 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,791 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,603 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,192 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2015 | 37 | #3,084 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,011 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,178 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
Names like Decklyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Decklyn
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