Caitrin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caitrin has been given to 410 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1986, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Caitrin, 2017
1 in 715,000
Caitrin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Caitrin?
Caitrin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caitrin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caitrin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caitrins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caitrin was born before 1994 — so the typical Caitrin is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 410
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (126).
Is Caitrin 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (22)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.1% average annual change
Spellings of Caitrin
Caitrin is not the most common spelling — Caitlin is, with 45.8% against Caitrin's 0.17%.
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.
Caitrin around the world
Where Caitrin 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 & Wales1996–1996#3,795in 1996
- Scotland2000–2000#629in 2000
- Ireland1980–1980#542in 1980
- South Australia1999–1999#729in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Caitrin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caitrin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caitrin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.