Klynn
Feminine
Klynn has been in the American record for sixty years and reached its highest point in the last few. That is an unusual curve — most names of its kind arrive, peak and disappear inside a decade.
How old is the name Klynn?
Klynn first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Klynn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Klynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klynn most popular?
Klynn peaked in 2018, reaching #2217 nationally. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Klynn
A name that takes sixty years to reach its peak is doing something the fashionable ones are not. Names that ride a film or a record spike and collapse; names that spread person to person climb slowly and can keep climbing long after everyone involved has forgotten where they first heard it. There is a third possibility for a name like this one, and it is the likeliest: that it was invented independently, over and over, by different families following the same simple rule — a letter that matters to them, plus an ending that was available. Each of those families made it up fresh. The record shows one name with a long slow rise; what happened was several hundred separate inventions of the same four letters.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source. The ending is the widely used American suffix and the K at the front is almost certainly an initial — a mother's, a grandmother's, a family letter — rather than the beginning of a word. That is a real naming practice and it produces names that cannot be traced because there was never anything to trace.
Pronouncing Klynn
KLIN
One syllable. Kay-LIN, with two, is also used by families who treat the K as an initial.
Nicknames for Klynn
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
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 201883 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2217reached in 2018
- Change vs 2023
- −7.1%13 in 2024, from 14
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.
Klynn in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, California.
Klynns among us
people named Klynn are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Klynn sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, distinctive and almost certainly hers alone in any room.
- The spelling is simple and read correctly on sight.
- It contains a familiar name that can be used on its own.
- Two pronunciations are in use and she will be asked which.
- Klyn, Klynne and Kaylynn are all nearby in the record.
- There is no meaning behind it, and the K is probably a letter rather than a sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klynns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Klynn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Klynn in 2025?
- Klynn is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Klynn with classmates?
- Klynn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with K, all years combined.
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