Katlin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Katlin has been given to 5,461 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 385 recorded.
Babies named Katlin, 2015
1 in 463,000
Katlin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Katlin?
Katlin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 463,000
- 8 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 320,718 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Katlin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katlin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Katlins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Katlin was born before 1995 — so the typical Katlin is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 62.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,335
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 62.0% of all recorded uses (3,310).
Is Katlin 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 (385)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Katlin
Katlin is not the most common spelling — Katie is, with 19.4% against Katlin's 0.43%.
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 Katlin is used
Across 1910–2025, Katlin was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 36,721 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
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. Katlin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Katlin around the world
Where Katlin 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 & Wales1997–2013#5,742in 2013
- Scotland1999–2006#606in 2006
- Ireland2001–2001#498in 2001
- Canada1991–2002#1,849in 2002
- South Australia1993–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Katlin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Katlin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Katlin
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Katlin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Katlin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.