Gatlyn
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- GAT-lin
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Gatlyn is a name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Gatlyn mean?
English: respelling of the English surname Gatlin
A modern spelling of the English surname Gatlin, taken up as a first name in the US.
Is Gatlyn a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Gatlyn has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Gatlyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Gatlyn, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had fewer boys named Gatlyn than any year since 2009.
Half of all the boys named Gatlyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 223 boys in the US were given Gatlyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #930, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
- Gatlin 217
- Gatlyn 6
Gatlyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,027 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,627 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,655 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
Names like Gatlyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sevyn Deacon Callan Ocean Cannon Kayden Cassian Raiden Boden Caspian Ronan Declan
Other spellings of Gatlyn
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gatlyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gatlyn, updated 20 October 2026.