Kaylin is a spelling variant of the modern invented name Kaylyn. It is composed of Kay and Lyn and can have multiple meanings. Kay can stand for ‘pure, clean’, ‘keeper of the keys’ and ‘Glory’, Lyn means ‘pretty’.
Kaylin is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Kaylin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Kaylin ranks 674. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Kaylin. In the entire USA, approximately 16,978 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kaylin. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Kaylin is a spelling variant of the modern invented name Kaylyn. It is composed of Kay and Lyn and can have multiple meanings. Kay can stand for ‘pure, clean’, ‘keeper of the keys’ and ‘Glory’, Lyn means ‘pretty’.
The name Kaylin ... has been around since the 1980s and had its most popular phase around 2010.
Kaylin is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Kaylin cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #349 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2009. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Kaylin, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Kaylin seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kaylin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
204 babies were named Kaylin in 2022 - that's 1 in 772,041 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Kaylin ranked 1,069 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Kaylin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kaylin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kaylin, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kaylin sounds like this:
