Caitland
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caitland has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1996, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Caitland, 2000
1 in 630,000
Caitland 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Caitland?
Caitland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 630,000
- 6 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 303,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 436,510 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caitland sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caitland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caitlands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caitland was born before 1993 — so the typical Caitland is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 68.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 96
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (66).
Is Caitland 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
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- 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (12)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Caitland
Caitland is not the most common spelling — Caitlin is, with 65.2% against Caitland's 0.06%.
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.
Caitland around the world
Where Caitland 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 & Wales1997–2004#3,725in 2004
- Canada1993–1993#2,426in 1993
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Caitland by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caitland
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caitland
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.