girls:
57.3k births since 1971
#531 (91st percentile)
boys:
75 births since 1984
#4511 (2nd percentile)
overall:
57.4k births since 1971
#985 (87th percentile)
The name Kaitlin is the #985 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57,368 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 87.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #531 (90.7% percentile) for all time with 57,293 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,511 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1984.
Kaitlin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Kaitlin is available in 52 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 10 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 Kaitlin has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaitlin reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 89.3% percentile (ranked #92) with 1,875 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 1,875 births per million (ranked 89.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaitlin ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kaitlin reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #747) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.3% 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 "Kaitlin".
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