Yailin
Feminine
Yailin belongs to the Dominican naming tradition, which since the twentieth century has been one of the most inventive anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world.
How old is the name Yailin?
Yailin first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Yailin alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,000 people named Yailin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yailin most popular?
Yailin peaked in 2022, reaching #2193 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 1,710 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 Yailin
Ours, offered as ours. Caribbean Spanish naming has produced hundreds of new names since the mid-twentieth century, and the Y- opening is its most recognizable signature — Yaritza, Yamilet, Yailin, Yulissa. Some blend parents' names, some are borrowed from English and reshaped, and many are simply made because they sound right. It is one of the few living naming traditions where new names are still being invented in numbers, which is worth saying plainly and admiringly.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language or meaning is established. The construction is characteristic of Dominican and Puerto Rican naming: an initial Y, an open middle and a -lin or -lyn ending, shared with Yarelin, Yamilin and Yulissa.
Pronouncing Yailin
yah-EE-leen
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yailin
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
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 202286 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2193reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −47.1%37 in 2025, from 70
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.
Yailin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yailin in Spanish — same name
- Yailyn in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Yailins among us
people named Yailin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Yailin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yailin
- #3903
- Yailin on the 2025 chart
- #918
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yailin went to 37 girls in 2025, but Yailyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 42, which makes it the 918th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,985 places above the chart.
- Yailin37
- Yailyn5
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Yailin 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 Casaundra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yailin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Casaundra climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Casaundra's path sketches the road Yailin is walking now.
Yailin 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 Yailin is headed
Yailin is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 124% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Yailin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yailin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It belongs clearly to a living and genuinely inventive Caribbean tradition.
- Six letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
- Yailin, Yailyn and Yaylin are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yailins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Yailin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yailin?
- Yailin is the most-used spelling in US records — 37 of the 42 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yailyn.
- How popular is the name Yailin in 2025?
- Yailin ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yailin?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Yailin — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yailin with classmates?
- Yailin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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