Meaning not yet researched.
Kaitlin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #93 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #93 in 1994; #4,114 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaitlin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,114 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #93.
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Kaitlin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #93 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 3,602 (1995).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Kaitlin, making it the 4,114th most common girls’ name of the year, up 843 places from #4,957 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 27 girls named Kaitlin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #93, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,602, in 1995. For comparison, it was #1,332 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaitlin in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 7 babies. In all, 57,430 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 30,852 babies named Kaitlin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 480 US girls were named Kaitlin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaitlyn (166,921 babies since 1880), Caitlin (112,426 babies since 1880), Caitlyn (52,637 babies since 1880) and Katlyn (18,438 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Katline, Kaytlinn and Katlain are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kait and Kaitie.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Katline (27), Kaytlinn (22), Katlain (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,234 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 2015 | 178 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2014 | 251 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2013 | 248 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2012 | 319 | #837 | — | — |
| 2011 | 342 | #792 | — | — |
| 2010 | 441 | #663 | — | — |
| 2009 | 531 | #576 | — | — |
| 2008 | 673 | #474 | — | — |
| 2007 | 781 | #421 | — | — |
| 2006 | 957 | #344 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,003 | #321 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,101 | #297 | 5 | #12,284 |
| 2003 | 1,191 | #264 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,456 | #219 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,821 | #180 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,136 | #158 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,085 | #155 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,702 | #120 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,667 | #119 | — | — |
| 1996 | 3,136 | #103 | — | — |
| 1995 | 3,602 | #94 | 10 | #5,704 |
| 1994 | 3,501 | #93 | — | — |
| 1993 | 3,226 | #99 | 5 | #9,455 |
| 1992 | 2,943 | #113 | — | — |
| 1991 | 3,486 | #99 | 7 | #6,902 |
| 1990 | 3,472 | #101 | 10 | #5,188 |
| 1989 | 3,171 | #100 | 11 | #4,665 |
| 1988 | 2,841 | #98 | 10 | #4,603 |
| 1987 | 1,959 | #141 | 6 | #6,532 |
| 1986 | 1,466 | #182 | 6 | #6,321 |
| 1985 | 1,236 | #208 | — | — |
| 1984 | 682 | #339 | 5 | #6,826 |
| 1983 | 506 | #427 | — | — |
| 1982 | 253 | #695 | — | — |
| 1981 | 211 | #776 | — | — |
| 1980 | 135 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,976 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,857 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,913 | — | — |
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).