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Kailynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAY-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#2,326 for girls

Kailynn is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,326th for girls in the US (78 babies).

What does Kailynn mean?

Modern: blend of Kay or Kai and Lynn

A modern blend of Kay or Kai with the popular -lynn ending.

Is Kailynn a girl's or a boy's name?

Kailynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 78 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kailynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,326th among girls
Babies in 2025
78 about 1 in 21,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 32% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 78 girls in the US were named Kailynn, making it the 2,326th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,616th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 290 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kailynn than any year since 1998.

Half of all the girls named Kailynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,087 girls in the US were given Kailynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #305, up from #2,326 for this spelling alone.

1985Busiest: 290 in 20112025
Kailynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202578#2,326
202495#2,040
2023101#1,946
2022105#1,907
2021122#1,698
2020129#1,616
2019122#1,708
2018154#1,435
2017159#1,432
2016184#1,300
2015226#1,126
2014258#1,011
2013235#1,056
2012271#942
2011290#898
2010230#1,082
2009247#1,048
2008226#1,137
2007209#1,203
2006150#1,473
2005132#1,547
2004125#1,572
2003113#1,686
200298#1,819
200189#1,937
200090#1,881
199980#1,959
199868#2,121
199749#2,587
199657#2,311
199556#2,340
199439#2,983
199336#3,153
199226#3,962
199115#5,943
199019#4,863
198920#4,516
19886#10,381
198710#6,783
19866#9,540
19857#8,315

Names like Kailynn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kailynn

Names related to Kailynn

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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, “Kailynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kailynn, updated 20 October 2026.