Caitlan
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caitlan has been given to 1,047 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 88 recorded.
Babies named Caitlan, 2012
1 in 732,000
Caitlan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caitlan?
Caitlan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caitlan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caitlan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caitlans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caitlan was born before 1992 — so the typical Caitlan is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 56.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,047
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (590).
Is Caitlan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1990 (88)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Caitlan
Caitlan is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 40.5% against Caitlan's 0.25%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Caitlan is used
Across 1910–2025, Caitlan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 255,662 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Indiana1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Oregon1 in —
- 8South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caitlan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caitlan around the world
Where Caitlan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2013#4,050in 2013
- Scotland1997–2009#783in 2009
- Canada1991–1999#2,493in 1999
- South Australia1988–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Caitlan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caitlan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caitlan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.