girls:
1.1k births since 1970
#4661 (18th percentile)
boys:
446 births since 1982
#4140 (10th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1970
#6244 (19th percentile)
The name Catlin is the #6,244 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,501 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 19.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,661 (18.4% percentile) for all time with 1,055 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,140 (9.7% percentile) for all time with 446 births since 1982.
Catlin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Catlin is available in 34 out of the 42 years between 1970 and 2011 (34 years for girls and 15 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 Catlin has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2011, 100.0% of babies named Catlin were girls.
For girls, Catlin reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #786) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
For boys, Catlin reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #633) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 35 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Catlin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Catlin is pronounced as KAT-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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