From Karlyn

All my life, I have never known a single soul who shared my unusual first name. Through the internet however, I have learned that there are actually quite a few Karlyns out there! I’m sure there are many who are not on the internet either, but I have no way of knowing who they are.

For the ones who are on the internet though.. writers, designers, students, webmasters, shop owners, who ever they are.. I wanted to make a listing here. Just for fun, but also as a way to sort of bring us all together in cyberspace and show each other (and all who happen upon this page), how truly unique we are. It is our own, very unique, “Karlyn” link page.

After you meet the Karlyns here, see below on how to get you or your Karlyn included!

10-29-09 Meet Karlyn Lothery – “This is Karlyn.  I’ve actually met three Karlyns in my life, with our spelling. I always want to know if other people spellcheck their names, subconsciously, and call them Caralyn, or Kathryn?  How hard is it to say our name when it’s phonetically spelled?

Anyway, I’m a communication coach in Washington, DC, and a member of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University.  I work with executives, sports figures, and health professionals on being better public speakers, more effective in media interviews, more persuasive leaders, and more effective speech writers.  I’ve been in business for myself for a year, but have 15 years of television, media and public relations experience.  I took a four year break from PR and shifted to diversity, and now I put them all together.

I love that you’re connecting Karlyns.  I enjoyed reading about all of us!”

9-7-09 Meet Karlyn Wood – “I have noticed that most of the Karlyns on this interesting Web site are women. I am a male with this unusual name and have believed that I was the only one. My parents knew a dentist’s son whose name was Carlin. They liked the name but decided to spell it Karlyn. I am a retired college professor from the SUNY/College at Old Westbury where I chaired and taught in the School of Education. I have a book on the interdisciplinary instructional approach, the fourth edition of which was published in July 2009 by Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.”

9-4-08 Meet Karlyn Hardman – “I knew there were other Karlyns but not so many!! I’ve met two other girls who spell it the same way and a few who have different spellings; I met a guy once who’s first name was Karlin, too! That was wierd. My mom made up my name by combining the names of her two best friends growing up, Karen and Lynn. I’m 25, married to an amazing man named Kevin and we live in Washington state with our dog, cat, and lots of pretty fishies. I’m a photographer with my own business http://www.andaphotography.com and my husband is a medical massage therapist, also with his own business. I haven’t ever heard of other definitions for our name… it really depends on how your parents came up with the name, so I guess it’s not surprising that there are so many. My mother meant mine to mean “pure and refreshing.” I’ve always loved having an unusual name!
P.S. I once found a mug stand at a fair that claimed to have every name in the world in there somewhere; naturally, I laughed and said, “I bet they don’t have mine” but sure enough – they did!!”

9-4-08 Meet Karlyn’s Mom, Beth – “I’m amazed at how many Karlyn’s out there that have found this site! Wow. We thought we invented it in 1983 for our daughter’s name…oh..wait… we did! LOL! We just didn’t know that others had “invented” it, too! It was fun to read through the entries to see how long ago the name Karlyn was given. Our daughter is named after two dear friends: Karen, my college roomate, a fellow O.T., and a gracious and compassionate Christian woman. And, Lynn, who was a sweet devoted Christian young lady who had a profound impact on my life during high school. We decided that her name’s meaning was a combination of the meanings of Karen and Lynn. Together with her middle name of Beth, her name means “Pure and Refreshing Abiding Place of God”. We did meet another family in Bothell, Wa., once with a toddler named Karlyn, when ours was a toddler too. There was a delightful gift store in Centreville, VA., near the above-mentioned Karen’s house called “Karlyn Cottage” that we enjoyed visiting, too. This was a fun site that was linked to on andaphotography.com, Karlyn’s photography website.”

8-25-08 Meet Karlyn Ann – “hi! my name is Karlyn too!  I’m 21 years old from the Philippines and i am currently a 2nd year law student. glad i found ur site! ”

8-22-08 Meet Karlyn Gordon – “I was searching for myspace things to add, showing the many faces of Karlyn.. and stumbled upon this site. I too am very into many different things.. I love writing, reading and music.  I am going to get married in April 2009!  If you’d like to get to know me more, myspace me!  www.myspace.com/karlynforlife“

8-9-08 Meet Karlyn Geiger – “My husband just found your website and I too never knew anyone with my name and have loved it.  My mom had heard of a girl in her classroom with the name and put it on a short list for my dad to choose from.  He chose it and I’m glad he did.  I was born in 1974 in CT & I’m adopted.  I have 3 little ones of my own now, Tate 4, Lydia almost 3 and Gabe almost 1 and an amazing and godly husband.  We are in full time college ministry and work at Penn State.  It’s fun to see all of you others too!”

11-30-07 Meet Karlyn C. – “Hi there – I’m Karlyn – born 1958 in California. We thought my dad made up the name – there are three girls in our family and we all have lyn in our name. There’s a J (Jolyn), a K (Karlyn) and an L (Lynnette). I’ve met a few Karlyn’s over the years – and figured there must be more out there when all the email addresses with Karlyn were taken. I still live in California, run an internet company designed to help families with emergency preparation and planning (www.axcesspoints.com). Send me an email and I’ll give you a code that will allow you and your family to use our services free of charge!”

8-5-07 Meet Karlyn S. – “I have a 3 year old daughter named Karlyn, so I too, wanted to see how many others were out there. Some people think it’s just another trendy, made-up, K name. We all know that’s not true.”

1-5-07 Meet Karlyn M. – “WOWEE!! What an incredible find this is! I honestly thought there was no other kid on the planet with my uniquely UNUSUAL name (NOT Carolyn but pronounced Carlin, like the comic!). My parents thought they were being so cleverclever & different! ) HAPPY TO MEET ALL OF YOU WONDERFUL AND AMAZING INDIVIDUALS!! I am Karlyn M., born in a place called Wichita, KS back in 1969. I studied Chemistry & Spanish, went to med school & dropped out, and now have a job working for the government. I am married to a wonderful guy & we’re blessed with two beautiful boys (ages 3 and 8 months!). Who knew that being home on sick leave would be so enlightening?! Glad to know you’re all out there!!”

7-25-06 Meet Karlyn Mahnken – “I live in Riverside, CA, born and raised. I was named after a Karlyn my mom tought during Sunday School. She liked the name and decided to use it. I am a mom of thee kids, who are all currently under three (one set of twins). I found this web site when I noticed another freecycler named Karlyn. My site is at heapsclan.com.”

7-20-06 Meet Karlyn Kucans – “Saline, Michigan – I am just blown away by all the other Karlyns there are throughout the world. Like all the other Karlyns I always thought I was the only one! I am sure that all of us Karlyns will agree though that even though no one gets our name right, everyone comments on how nice the name is. Of course I had to marry a Kucans which sounds very funny with Karlyn! Nice to finally feel “normal” with my name!”

5-11-06 Meet Karlyn Cynthia Solis – “Florida, born 1981-WOW, I am floored, I swear, I really, truly thought that I was the one and only!!! I was going to be Karly Lynn, after Carly Simon and my Aunt Karla, but my mom decided against that and combined the two and gave me my Aunt Cindy’s name as my middle name!! It seems very surreal to see other people with MY name, I guess because it is not as common as Rebecca or Stephanie!!! I have been called everthing-Karen, Carolyn, Kathryn, Carmen……..but, I have always taken that in stride!! It is wonderful to find others with the same name, I was just playing on the internet and decided to google my name-I was blown away!! It is so nice to read everyones stories and find out a little bit of information from “Karlyn’s” all over the world!!”

10-27-05 Meet Karlyn – “What a wonderful surprise to find so many Karlyn’s!!
I truly believed I was the only one, as so many of you did.
I live on beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. My father was in the armed forces and travelled a lot. My Mom picked up the name from someone in a country overseas.I love it’s uniqueness now that I am older. Good Luck to you all on this, your life’s journey. And thank-you Karlyn (dotcom) for this website..”

10-17-05 Meet Karlyn Waskiewicz – “Hi – What an awesome website. I never thought I’d see so many “Karlyn’s” in one place. Actually, I have never met anyone with our unique name. I am 40 something and live in Canterbury, Connecticut. My husband is Corky and my daugher is Courtney. I look forward to reading of more “Karlyn’s” on you website!!”

9-6-05 Meet Karlyn Smith Spencer – “I have only met one person with my name and it really shocked me. I was 40 at the time. I am so happy to learn that there are so many of us. We should have a convention of Karlyns.”

8-2-05 Meet Karlyn Koeser – “Hey my names Karlyn (ofcourse.lol.) I was bored so I googled my name and I found this…its kinda neat actually…I used to think I was the only one but I met another Karlyn last year and shes going to my highschool soon.lol. But this is awsome…theres so many frickin Karlyns…aha. Anyways Im out…feel free to e-mail me…c yah!”

6-29-05 Meet Karlyn Major – “hey, my name is karlyn too! I am 14 and live in Canberra, Australia! My mum wanted to call me Carly, but my dad thinking he was inventing it called me Karlyn. As i have learned i am not the only one! people call me Carolyn and teachers hesitate to call my name out on the roll at school. GO KARLYNS! Yaaaay!”

6-25-05 Meet Karlyn Foster – “I never knew that there was this many karlyn’s in the world!!! I thought I was the only one. My name came after this girl named Carlin. Some people can’t say my name cause they think it is hard. Do you get that alot? I do.”

6-14-05 Meet Karlyn Castro-Rodriguez – “my name is karlyn too!!!! thats amazingi thought i was the only one and my mom thought she invented the name thats ******* wild”

5-27-05 Meet Karlyn Masters – “Hi, I’m also Karlyn. I have never met so many Karlyn’s, wow. I am 22 and live in Oregon. I am a Biology major and will soon be applying to med school. My mom worked with a women named Karlyn in washington, they are teachers, and got the name from her. They no longer know eachother now. I have never met another Karlyn, but I have met a Carlin in Alaska. Although this last summer I met a man with the last name Karlin. It is strange. I get called carolin, karly, Karen, all the worng names as well. It has never botherd me too much though, I guess I am just used to it. It was nice to read about everyone else.”

4-26-05 Meet Karlyn A. – “Hi there! I’m Karlyn Alcala, Singapore. But my original hometown is the beautiful pearl of the pacific, the Philippines. Since grade school to college I never had a classmate who has the same name as mine, or even people I have dealt with or until now. I’ve always thought that my name is very unique co’z it was the combination of my parent’s first names, Carlito and Lyne, they just replaced C with K. I too had experiences of people mispronouncing my name, of course I always correct them! Glad to have found this site coz even when i look on meaning of names, i cant see “Karlyn” there. I’m a computer science graduate and pursuing a diploma in human resources. I’m married to a great man and got a handsome son. If you want to know my inner thougths, just visit http://thoughtsoflen.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/”

4-22-05 Meet Karlyn B. ~ “Heyy! I am always on the computer and I don’t know why, but I decided to google search my name “Karlyn” I had noo idea there were soo many out there, as did everyone else. I too get my name mispronounced alot. When my mother was pregnant with me, shortly after her father died, he came to her in a dream. He said “Name your daughter Karlyn.” She was confused, but got to thinking about it. His name was Karl, and my mom’s middle name was Lynn. So, put them both together and get Karlyn! I also enjoy drawing alot. Faces particularly. I thought it was neat that some other Karlyns on this site enjoy art as well! Well, thanks for giving me the oppertunity to share my story. I think your site is very interesting and a very good idea! Keep it up!”

3-29-05 Meet Karlyn H ~ “My 7 year old daughter, Karlyn, and I were just discussing websites this morning and she wanted me to put her name in a search engine to see what popped up. WOW!!! we were soooo suprised to find this website! As with everyone else, we thought we had the only Karlyn in the world (Especially spelled the same way)!!! We had originally planned to spell it as “Carlyn” but all the nurses in the nursery kept calling her “Carolyn”. So in an effort to prevent this in the future we changed it to the current spelling. Still today, everyone mispronounces her name (calling her “Carolyn”). How neat that you created this website just for the Karlyns of the world!! Now she can see that she’s not the only Karlyn out there and that she truly has a beautiful and unique name!”

3-24-05 Meet Karlyn Mason ~ “I had no idea so many people were named Karlyn! My parents probably thought they were the first ones to think of it. I have a lot of trouble with people mispronouncing “Karlyn” too…mostly people want to say it like “Carolyn.” Pretty much everyone calls me Karli, though. I live in New Hampshire, but I will be studying music at the University of Maryland next fall.”

2-22-05 Meet Karlyn Francis ~ “Dallas Texas – I was born in 1963. My Father was in the Navy and my parents lived on base next to a family that had a little girl named Karlyn. My parents were not sure how she spelled it, but liked the name very much and knew they would name one of their girl’s “Karlyn”. I have always felt special because of my name, there is just something about it. I have only met one other Karlyn, and I worked with her at a bank here in Dallas. I also get very aggravated when my name is mispronounced. I get called Carla, Carmen,and Carloyn. My family calls me Karlie. I currently work in the Criminal Justice Field. It is great to know that I am not alone.”

1-26-05 Meet Karlyn Tramposch ~ “WOW! I can’t believe that I found someone with my name!”

1-18-05 Meet Karlyn S. ~ “heyyy! Im sooo excited to find other Karlyn’s! we have an unusual name and its so sweet!”

12-10-04 Meet Karlyn B. ~ “I’m 33. I work as a social care worker in the west of Scotland. I have no children just my partner who i live with. I love to travel. I’m a vegitarian. I love the outdoors. I have a dog-ben, and a cat-tiger.”

11-15-04 Meet Karlyn Consuegra ~ “Hi I am Dominican and today I don’t know why?,but I wanted to search for my name and I did. I found this website and I did not know the meaning of my name.Thanks to you now I know what it means. Well I will like to keep in touch with you.”

11-11-04 Meet Karlyn Phillips ~ Searcy, AR ~ “Hey there! I too thought I was the only Karlyn in the world! I am a college freshman at Harding Universtiy in Searcy, AR. Native of Arizona, i was born in 1985 and had lived in AZ up til now. I am an artist and a musician. My dream is to work for Disney studios as a concept artist. I love making people smile and showing others the love of Christ. I am proud to have such a unique name and I am sure all of you girls do as well. God Bless…”

10-15-04 Meet Karlyn Finlayson ~ Montrose, Scotland – “I was born in 1988 and have lived in Scotland my whole life. I was very surprised and pleased to find this site. I have never heard of the french, latin or german origins of the name but i do know that in scottish gaelic, when spelt ‘carlin’, means witch or ‘little witch’. I am a wiccan so am not offended but very smitten with my name. I’m still in high school and plan to become a photographer or writer, or both! We should write to souvenir comanies and tell them to print our name, it’s more common than they think!”

09-20-04 Meet Karlyn Moore ~ Little Rock, Arkansas ~ “I am from Little Rock, Arkansas. I have completed my master’s degree in psychology and am working at Arkansas Rehabilitaiton Services as a Psychological Examiner. I am getting married December 4, 2004 to a wonderful man who is smart, funny, and creative! He also plays guitar in a local band. My mother told me that she combined parts of both her and my fathers middle names to make my name. (Karen and Lyn — Kar+lyn). I too, have struggled with never getting to buy cute pencils and stickers with my name printed…but always appreciated the fact that I was an “original”. However, as time has progressed, I’ve realized I’m definitely not alone with this “original” name!”

06-21-04 Meet Karlyn Salazar ~ “Hi, I’m Karlyn Salazar, formerly Karlyn Hyde. Centerville, UT – I was born in 1975. I have lived in Utah all my life. My mom’s name is Karen Lynne, so she combined her two names to get mine. I am an only girl with four older brothers. I am a doula (labor assistant). I LOVE pregnant women, and I LOVE helping them deliver there babies! I have two children of my own. Piper Leah, she is 3, and Teague Orlando, he is 1. And I have the greatest husband EVER! My website is www.thesalazarfamily.com.”

06-19-04 Meet Karlyn Finucane ~ Buffalo, New York ~ “I was born in 1975, my parents had never heard of the name Karlyn and thought they were quite original, turns out that it is the name Karlyn that instead creates very original people. I am currently pursuing my Master’s Degree, recently got married to a great man, and have a dog and two cats. My blog is located at http://www.karlyn.us“.

Are you a Karlyn?
Send me a note telling me about yourself and what you do and I will include it here!