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Kilyn

Girl · KY-lin · Modern

Kilyn is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Kilyn come from?

Modern: spelling of Kilynn; modern blend with the ending -lynn

Say it
KY-lin

Meaning borrowed from Kilynn.

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

Kilyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kilyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Kilyn, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

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

In 2025, 168 girls in the US were given Kilyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,192, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 11 in 20092025
Kilyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20230–
20225#15,300
20210–
20207#12,137
20196#13,793
20188#11,422
20179#10,685
201610#10,109
20150–
20149#10,949
20137#13,145
20129#11,251
20117#13,339
201010#10,446
200911#9,971
20089#11,594
20078#12,671
20068#12,415
20057#13,003
20049#10,684
20037#12,401
20026#13,589
20016#13,514

Names like Kilyn

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

Other spellings of Kilyn

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