How popular is the name Kathlyn?

Kathlyn ranks 1,954th among girls' names in US records, with 5,694 births since 1897. Over the past decade it accounts for 215.

Is Kathlyn a unisex name?

No. Kathlyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1951, when 139 children were given the name. It has been in use for 128 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Kathlynn, Kathlin. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,954 of girl names

Pronounced K AE1 TH L IH1 N (ARPABET)

Kathlyn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1897. It has been given to 5,694 children — the 1,954th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 215 births across the past decade, against a peak of 139 in a single year. That peak was in 1951.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Kathlynn and Kathlin — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Kathlyn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Kathlyn?: Kathlyn ranks 1,954th among girls' names in US records, with 5,694 births since 1897. Over the past decade it accounts for 215.
Is Kathlyn a unisex name?: No. Kathlyn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Kathlyn most popular?: 1951, when 139 children were given the name. It has been in use for 128 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Kathlyn spelled?: Kathlynn, Kathlin. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.