Meaning not yet researched.
Caitlin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #44 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #44 in 1988; #2,333 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caitlin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,333 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #44.
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Caitlin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #44 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 7,246 (1988).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Caitlin, making it the 2,333rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 649 places from #1,684 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 121 girls named Caitlin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #44, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,246. For comparison, it was #610 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caitlin in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 112,426 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 49,128 babies named Caitlin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,247 US girls were named Caitlin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caitlin ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,443 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaitlyn (166,921 babies since 1880), Katelyn (134,206 babies since 1880), Caitlyn (52,637 babies since 1880) and Katelynn (30,691 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caytlin, Caitlinn and Cathlin are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cait and Caity.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Caytlin (282), Caitlinn (133), Cathlin (116), Caitlain (84), Caetlin (24), Caithlin (20), Caitline (16), Caytlen (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,443 | #581 |
| New York | 6 | #1,876 | #461 |
| California | 10 | #1,977 | #596 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,221 | #776 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,436 | #905 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2018 | 166 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 2015 | 477 | #610 | — | — |
| 2014 | 628 | #496 | — | — |
| 2013 | 654 | #468 | — | — |
| 2012 | 741 | #424 | — | — |
| 2011 | 803 | #393 | — | — |
| 2010 | 945 | #339 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,216 | #267 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,459 | #235 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,530 | #230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,653 | #209 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,778 | #193 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,050 | #161 | 12 | #6,195 |
| 2003 | 2,311 | #142 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,743 | #123 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,456 | #89 | — | — |
| 2000 | 4,102 | #76 | 5 | #10,589 |
| 1999 | 3,461 | #93 | 6 | #8,851 |
| 1998 | 4,175 | #78 | 6 | #8,617 |
| 1997 | 3,862 | #88 | 7 | #7,387 |
| 1996 | 4,268 | #84 | 8 | #6,579 |
| 1995 | 4,384 | #81 | 13 | #4,547 |
| 1994 | 4,654 | #78 | 6 | #7,902 |
| 1993 | 5,428 | #64 | 5 | #8,891 |
| 1992 | 5,391 | #62 | 12 | #4,601 |
| 1991 | 6,384 | #55 | 12 | #4,523 |
| 1990 | 7,026 | #50 | 20 | #3,071 |
| 1989 | 7,025 | #49 | 44 | #1,737 |
| 1988 | 7,246 | #44 | 28 | #2,204 |
| 1987 | 4,989 | #63 | 26 | #2,222 |
| 1986 | 3,881 | #69 | 16 | #3,020 |
| 1985 | 3,593 | #77 | 14 | #3,238 |
| 1984 | 2,343 | #118 | 21 | #2,373 |
| 1983 | 1,885 | #153 | 8 | #4,561 |
| 1982 | 1,192 | #219 | 8 | #4,650 |
| 1981 | 784 | #309 | 6 | #5,591 |
| 1980 | 646 | #365 | — | — |
| 1979 | 254 | #677 | — | — |
| 1978 | 222 | #711 | — | — |
| 1977 | 172 | #854 | — | — |
| 1976 | 133 | #956 | — | — |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1973 | 68 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1971 | 77 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1969 | 93 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1967 | 61 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,670 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,334 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,929 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).