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Caitlynn

#8,969 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Caitlynn has been given to 4,947 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #8,969 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 297 recorded.

Babies named Caitlynn, 2025

1 in 301,000

Caitlynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caitlynn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caitlynn means

Caitlynn is a given name.

The naming story behind Caitlynn

Wikidata records Caitlynn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116483041, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,947 girls were recorded with the name Caitlynn between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 297 in 1998; its best national rank was #734 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,464 in 2020 to #8,969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,563 in 2015 to #8,969 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Caitlynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,969
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caitlynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caitlynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caitlynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caitlynn was born before 2001 — so the typical Caitlynn is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,947
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (2,050).

Is Caitlynn 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
−1,309
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,505
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,406
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.16×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.7%
Peak was 1998 (297)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
1998

Spellings of Caitlynn

Caitlynn is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 42.8% against Caitlynn's 1.3%.

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 Caitlynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Caitlynn was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 47,753 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 33,333
  8. 8Missouri1 in 33,333

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. Caitlynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caitlynn around the world

Where Caitlynn 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 & Wales
    1997–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    2000–2007
    #633
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #1,631
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1993–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Caitlynn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Caitlynn. Linked forms have their own page here.

CaitlynKaitlynnCaitlynne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Caitlynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,505
Best rank ever
#734
1998
Peak year
1998
297 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,947
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Caitlynn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Caitlynn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caitlynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Caitlynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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