Kaitlin
Kaitlin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 93rd, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19953,602 births
- Best rank
- #93in 1994
- Since 1971
- 57,319people given the name
The story in the numbers
57,319 girls have been named Kaitlin in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 3,602 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 3,602 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 54%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1995, its biggest year
Kaitlin was the 94th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Kaitlin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cierapeak 1993
- Kaitlanpeak 1990
- Tiarrapeak 1991
- Sammanthapeak 1991
- Katlinpeak 1993
- Jourdanpeak 1990
- Tiarapeak 1995
- Catlinpeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
- Kaitlyn166,341 ever
- Caitlin112,068 ever
- Caitlyn52,531 ever
- Kaitlynn16,373 ever
- Caitlynn4,935 ever
- Kaytlin3,324 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.