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Katelin

Girls' name

Variant of Caitlin

Katelin has been given to 8,917 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1993, with 444 recorded.

Babies named Katelin, 2023

1 in 663,000

Katelin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katelin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Caitlin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Katelin means

Katelin is a variant of Caitlin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katelin is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkeɪt.lɪn/ for Katelin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caitlin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,917 girls were recorded with the name Katelin between 1977 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 444 in 1993; its best national rank was #539 in 1993.

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 Katelin?

Katelin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katelin 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katelin was born before 1996 — so the typical Katelin is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,917
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (4,106).

Is Katelin 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 1993 (444)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
1993

Spellings of Katelin

Katelin is not the most common spelling — Katelyn is, with 38.3% against Katelin's 2.5%.

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 Katelin is used

Across 1910–2025, Katelin was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 20,936 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 8,333
  2. 2Oregon1 in 11,111
  3. 3Indiana1 in 14,286
  4. 4Washington1 in 14,286
  5. 5Arizona1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 16,667
  7. 7Florida1 in 16,667
  8. 8Kansas1 in 16,667

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

Katelin around the world

Where Katelin 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1996–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–2003
    #331
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    1999–2009
    #742
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2014
    #2,839
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Katelin

People whose public names include Katelin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Katelin in other languages

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

CaitlinCaitlynKaitlynKatelynnKatelijne

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

Katelin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#539
1993
Peak year
1993
444 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
8,917
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katelin

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

KatlinKathlynKatalinKatalinaKatarinaKaterinaKattieKatherynKathrineKataleyaKatlynYoselinKatilinKatherinKatiaMarylinKatelynnJoselinKateriJaylinKatlynnKatianaKaterinEvelin

Names with a curve like Katelin

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

CieraAlexandreaKaelaYesseniaCaylaKalynKalieKelsiKasandraBreanaGabrielShakira

Sibling names for Katelin

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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