girls:
52.4k births since 1968
#563 (90th percentile)
boys:
34 births since 1988
#4552 (1st percentile)
overall:
52.5k births since 1968
#1049 (86th percentile)
The name Caitlyn is the #1,049 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52,479 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 86.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #563 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 52,445 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,552 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 1988.
Caitlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Caitlyn is available in 52 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caitlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Caitlyn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 87.2% percentile (ranked #116) with 1,421 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 1,515 births per million (ranked 87.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Caitlyn ranks #849 for girls (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Caitlyn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #840) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caitlyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Caitlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.5% confident that Caitlyn is pronounced as KAYT-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAYT-leen, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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