Matilyn
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Matilyn by the numbers
Matilyn was given to 24 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 63 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Matilyn
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.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Matilyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Matilyn
Names that are said the same way as Matilyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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