Kalyn
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 43 babies a year in the US.
Kalyn by the numbers
Kalyn was given to 43 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 354 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Kalyn
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 Kalyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kalyn
Names that are said the same way as Kalyn, 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 Kalyn
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