Calyn
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.
Calyn by the numbers
Calyn was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 35 babies in 2002, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Calyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Calyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Calyn
Names that are said the same way as Calyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Callanpowerful warrior; a form of cailean393 in the US (2017)
- Kailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin294 in the US (2017)
- Kaylinpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Katelin290 in the US (2017)
- Kailynnpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin157 in the US (2017)
- Kaylynpure; a modern respelling of Kaitlyn or Katelyn130 in the US (2017)
- Cailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Caitlyn87 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Calyn
Nobody has voted for Calyn yet
Vote for Calyn and put it up against all the other baby names
Vote for Calyn