How Many People Are Named Katelynn?

30,284

people named Katelynn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 11,285 people in the US has this name

Based on 30,691 babies named Katelynn in Social Security records from 1979 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,269

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#676

See the top 100

Peak Year

1998

1,457 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: KAYT-lin
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of CAITLIN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Katelynn in English. Counting Katelynn and these spellings together, about 570,335 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Katelynn in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Katelynn alive today is about 23 years old, and 76% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 29 in 2025.

Under 30 22,894
75.6%
30 to 59 7,390
24.4%
60 and over 0
0%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Katelynn first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 1998, to 1,457 babies. In 2025, 63 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Katelynn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #210, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,736.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,736
Best rank#210 (1998)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#266 in the 2000s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Katelynn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Katelynn were born in Texas than in any other state: about 2,967 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Katelynn was given 2.5 times as often in Wyoming, 2.2 times in West Virginia and 2.1 times in Oklahoma.

Texas 2,967
California 2,851
Ohio 1,586
New York 1,325
Florida 1,284
Michigan 1,263
Pennsylvania 1,132
Indiana 991
Illinois 949
Georgia 802
North Carolina 737
Missouri 736
Tennessee 735
Washington 700
Oklahoma 684
Kentucky 635
Virginia 589
Louisiana 536
Arizona 503
Wisconsin 492
Oregon 474
Utah 452
Minnesota 449
Arkansas 445
Alabama 445
New Jersey 444
Colorado 441
Maryland 413
Iowa 413
Massachusetts 398
Kansas 384
Mississippi 373
South Carolina 348
West Virginia 307
Idaho 201
Nebraska 200
Nevada 186
New Mexico 183
Connecticut 163
Maine 124
New Hampshire 107
Montana 105
Alaska 67
Wyoming 64
North Dakota 53
Rhode Island 46
South Dakota 42
Hawaii 37
Delaware 37
Vermont 25

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