Keylin
Feminine
Keylin is given to both — 1,180 girls and 315 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Keylin is a Central American name and it belongs to one of the most inventive naming cultures anywhere. Honduras and Nicaragua have been building names from English-looking parts for two generations, and this is one of the results.
How old is the name Keylin?
Keylin first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Keylin is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Keylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keylin most popular?
Keylin peaked in 2022, reaching #2253 nationally. Today it ranks #3028, 775 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keylin
Our story of Keylin belongs to a stretch of Central American naming that deserves more attention than it gets. Through the later twentieth century, families in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador began building names out of English-looking syllables — Keylin, Yorlin, Marlin, Deyvi, Wilmer — sometimes borrowed whole and sometimes assembled from parts. Whole cohorts of cousins carry names invented in those decades, and they are entirely ordinary there. This is a naming culture that stopped drawing from the saints' calendar and started composing, and it has been doing it long enough to have its own conventions.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing is documented. Keylin appears in Honduran, Nicaraguan and Salvadoran use without a recorded derivation. The Key- opening and the -lin ending are both live in that naming culture, appearing across Keylin, Keyla, Marlin and Yorlin, and a shared pattern is not an etymology. English Kaylin and Irish Caelan sit nearby and are not documented as sources.
Pronouncing Keylin
KAY-lin
Two syllables, stress on the first, the second reduced. Spanish speakers often say kay-LEEN with the stress at the end, and both circulate in American use.
Nicknames for Keylin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1997
- Most girls named
- 202283 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2253reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%54 in 2025, from 48
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Keylin in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Keylins among us
people named Keylin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,764 born in 2025 was named Keylin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keylin
- #3028
- Keylin on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keylin went to 54 girls in 2025, but Keilyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 84, which makes it the 876th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,152 places above the chart.
- Keylin54
- Keilyn30
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,764 for Keylin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jaynie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keylin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jaynie climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jaynie's path sketches the road Keylin is walking now.
Keylin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Keylin is headed
Keylin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Keylin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keylin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two easy syllables that English and Spanish speakers both manage at first sight.
- Key and Lin are both usable short forms and Lin is a name of its own.
- Genuinely established in Central America rather than newly assembled.
- It has no documented meaning, so anything offered for it has been supplied.
- The stress falls differently in Spanish and English, so the child will hear two versions.
- Keylin, Keyling, Kailin and Kaylin are all in use and none is standard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keylins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Keylin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keylin?
- Keylin is the most-used spelling in US records — 54 of the 84 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Keilyn.
- How popular is the name Keylin in 2025?
- Keylin ranks #3028 among US girl names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keylin?
- About 1 in every 29,764 US girls born in 2025 was named Keylin — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keylin with classmates?
- Keylin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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