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Kaitlynn

#3,675 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Caitlin

Kaitlynn has been given to 16,424 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #3,675 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 822 recorded.

Babies named Kaitlynn, 2025

1 in 80,900

Kaitlynn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaitlynn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Caitlin

Irish

What Kaitlynn means

Kaitlynn is a variant of Caitlin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kaitlynn → Caitlin → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaitlynn is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caitlin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,419 girls were recorded with the name Kaitlynn between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 822 in 1999; its best national rank was #356 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,934 in 2020 to #3,675 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #989 in 2015 to #3,675 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kaitlynn between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #12,278 in 2004.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaitlynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,675
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaitlynn 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaitlynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaitlynns were born

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

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16,419
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (6,598).

Is Kaitlynn 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
−195
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,741
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,686
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1999 (822)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#356
1998

Spellings of Kaitlynn

Kaitlynn is not the most common spelling — Kaitlyn is, with 40.7% against Kaitlynn's 4.0%.

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 Kaitlynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaitlynn was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 26,050 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,263
  2. 2Alabama1 in 10,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 20,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arizona1 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.

Kaitlynn around the world

Where Kaitlynn 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
    1998–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1998–2011
    #810
    in 2011
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2010–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,626
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1991–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaitlynn in other languages

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

CaitlynnKaitlynne

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

Kaitlynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,675
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,741
Best rank ever
#356
1998
Peak year
1999
822 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,419
Count in 2025
41

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,278
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaitlynn

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

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Names with a curve like Kaitlynn

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

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Sibling names for Kaitlynn

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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