Caitriona
#15,351 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caitriona has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #15,351 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Caitriona, 2025
1 in 663,000
Caitriona 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Caitriona?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,351
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caitriona sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caitriona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caitrionas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caitriona was born before 2004 — so the typical Caitriona is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 266
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (97).
Is Caitriona 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
- −2,950
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,760
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.4%
- Peak was 2018 (17)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.3% average annual change
Spellings of Caitriona
Caitriona is not the most common spelling — Catrina is, with 91.4% against Caitriona's 2.4%.
Caitriona around the world
Where Caitriona 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 & Wales1996–2018#4,684in 2018
- Scotland1990–2005#577in 2005
- Northern Ireland1997–2024#407in 2024
- Ireland1964–2023#555in 2023
- South Australia1990–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Caitriona by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caitriona
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caitriona
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.