Caitlyn
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #6,138
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 2,937 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 52,603since 1968
Caitlyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Caitlyn has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,485 | 71 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,641 | 127 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,632 | 127 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,186 | 198 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,170 | 206 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,091 | 232 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,049 | 249 | — | |
| 2015 | #598 | 494 | — | |
| 2014 | #462 | 692 | — | |
| 2013 | #406 | 754 | — | |
| 2012 | #378 | 826 | — | |
| 2011 | #343 | 930 | — | |
| 2010 | #302 | 1,071 | — | |
| 2009 | #256 | 1,279 | — | |
| 2008 | #227 | 1,492 | — | |
| 2007 | #213 | 1,611 | — | |
| 2006 | #200 | 1,755 | — | |
| 2005 | #182 | 1,898 | — | |
| 2004 | #165 | 2,030 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #160 | 2,080 | — | |
| 2002 | #148 | 2,266 | — | |
| 2001 | #133 | 2,536 | — | |
| 2000 | #118 | 2,835 | — | |
| 1999 | #124 | 2,673 | — | |
| 1998 | #115 | 2,937 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #133 | 2,364 | — | |
| 1996 | #138 | 2,334 | — | |
| 1995 | #138 | 2,302 | — | |
| 1994 | #150 | 2,171 | — | |
| 1993 | #153 | 2,044 | — | |
| 1992 | #156 | 1,970 | — | |
| 1991 | #185 | 1,609 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #183 | 1,587 | — | |
| 1989 | #221 | 1,234 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #222 | 1,171 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #387 | 596 | — | |
| 1986 | #410 | 537 | — | |
| 1985 | #532 | 373 | — | |
| 1984 | #762 | 212 | — | |
| 1983 | #942 | 157 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,243 | 105 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caitlyn! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Caitlyn is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Delaware#85 · 1 in 280
- Rhode Island#87 · 1 in 297
- Montana#92 · 1 in 285
- Iowa#100 · 1 in 408
- Vermont#102 · 1 in 326
Best ever in a state: #38 in North Dakota, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | #85 | 12 | 1 in 280 |
| Rhode Island | #87 | 16 | 1 in 297 |
| Montana | #92 | 11 | 1 in 285 |
| Iowa | #100 | 35 | 1 in 408 |
| Vermont | #102 | 7 | 1 in 326 |
| Kentucky | #103 | 47 | 1 in 425 |
| Ohio | #104 | 139 | 1 in 465 |
| Arkansas | #109 | 25 | 1 in 456 |
| Tennessee | #113 | 56 | 1 in 522 |
| Oregon | #114 | 36 | 1 in 445 |
| Florida | #115 | 131 | 1 in 569 |
| Alabama | #116 | 38 | 1 in 553 |
| Missouri | #116 | 58 | 1 in 511 |
| West Virginia | #117 | 16 | 1 in 495 |
| Idaho | #119 | 12 | 1 in 448 |
| Virginia | #120 | 62 | 1 in 569 |
| Maine | #121 | 11 | 1 in 465 |
| Kansas | #122 | 23 | 1 in 560 |
| Indiana | #125 | 57 | 1 in 575 |
| Mississippi | #132 | 20 | 1 in 609 |
| Hawaii | #133 | 10 | 1 in 467 |
| Louisiana | #133 | 35 | 1 in 641 |
| Nebraska | #134 | 14 | 1 in 578 |
| New Hampshire | #135 | 9 | 1 in 584 |
| Colorado | #136 | 33 | 1 in 613 |
| New Jersey | #136 | 65 | 1 in 677 |
| Oklahoma | #136 | 28 | 1 in 578 |
| Maryland | #137 | 40 | 1 in 632 |
| Massachusetts | #137 | 52 | 1 in 650 |
| Pennsylvania | #137 | 97 | 1 in 669 |
| Connecticut | #138 | 25 | 1 in 683 |
| Michigan | #138 | 78 | 1 in 695 |
| Georgia | #143 | 54 | 1 in 755 |
| Alaska | #149 | 6 | 1 in 463 |
| South Carolina | #153 | 23 | 1 in 721 |
| South Dakota | #155 | 6 | 1 in 547 |
| North Carolina | #159 | 48 | 1 in 795 |
| New York | #164 | 127 | 1 in 876 |
| Texas | #167 | 164 | 1 in 829 |
| Washington | #167 | 36 | 1 in 803 |
| Illinois | #169 | 94 | 1 in 790 |
| Wisconsin | #174 | 27 | 1 in 975 |
| New Mexico | #175 | 13 | 1 in 679 |
| Minnesota | #177 | 27 | 1 in 949 |
| Utah | #177 | 18 | 1 in 772 |
| Arizona | #187 | 33 | 1 in 820 |
| Nevada | #208 | 9 | 1 in 864 |
| California | #262 | 177 | 1 in 1,370 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| North Dakota | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Caitlyn
- 138 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,485)
- 853 spots since 2020 (#1,632 → #2,485)
- 1,887 spots since 2015 (#598 → #2,485)
- Biggest jump: 301 spots in 1983 (#1,243 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 451 spots in 2016 (#598 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #115 (2,937 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1983–2015
- Highest: 1 in 602 girls born in 1998 were named Caitlyn (0.17%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.8% of all girls named Caitlyn (21,991) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,052 (1979) | #6,161 |
| 1980s | 4,473 | #221 (1989) | #922 |
| 1990s | 21,991 | #115 (1998) | #148 |
| 2000s | 19,782 | #118 (2000) | #180 |
| 2010s | 5,652 | #302 (2010) | #699 |
| 2020s | 629 | #1,632 (2020) | #1,953 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caitlyn in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 823 of them was named Caitlyn, which outranked 99.0% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.