girls:
165.9k births since 1971
#237 (96th percentile)
boys:
232 births since 1985
#4354 (5th percentile)
overall:
166.1k births since 1971
#450 (94th percentile)
The name Kaitlyn is the #450 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 166,114 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 94.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #237 (95.9% percentile) for all time with 165,882 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,354 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 232 births since 1985.
Kaitlyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Kaitlyn is available in 50 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 25 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 Kaitlyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaitlyn reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 96.8% percentile (ranked #30) with 4,389 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 4,389 births per million (ranked 96.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaitlyn ranks #522 for girls (44.9% percentile) with 273 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kaitlyn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #817) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaitlyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kaitlyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Kaitlyn is pronounced as KAYT-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAYT-leen, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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