Caitlynn

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births

Peak · girls
1998 · 297 births
Debut · girls
19 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,947
since 1985

Caitlynn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Caitlynn has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #734, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#8,86011
2024#7,59414
2023#12,1977
2022#8,03213
2021#9,56210
2020#4,45330
2019#5,79821
2018#4,14434
2017#3,69741
2016#3,52344
2015#2,55570
2014#2,26782
2013#1,97799
2012#1,719120
2011#1,540142
2010#1,342175
2009#1,342178
2008#1,368176
2007#1,340181
2006#1,366168
2005#1,222186
2004#1,107206
2003#1,038220
2002#1,002219
2001#923242
2000#821274
1999#852254
1998#734297
1997#888228
1996#975195
1995#1,107160
1994#985188
1993#1,157153
1992#1,188147
1991#1,60994
1990#1,84777
1989#1,62985
1988#2,44744
1987#3,62424
1986#4,18619
1985#4,12619
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five girls were named Caitlynn! It came in at #4,126, and was given to 19 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2023, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

See more about Caitlynn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,266 spots since 2024 (#7,594#8,860)
  • 4,407 spots since 2020 (#4,453#8,860)
  • 6,305 spots since 2015 (#2,555#8,860)
  • Biggest jump: 172 spots in 1994 (#1,157#985)
  • Biggest drop: 122 spots in 1995 (#985#1,107)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 1998 at #734 (297 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1996–2001
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,949
  • Highest: 1 in 5,949 girls born in 1998 were named Caitlynn (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 41.4% of all girls named Caitlynn (2,050) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s191#1,629 (1989)#3,202
1990s1,793#734 (1998)#1,134
2000s2,050#821 (2000)#1,153
2010s828#1,342 (2010)#2,856
2020s85#4,453 (2020)#8,450

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.

Caitlynn in 2001

girls
#923
242 births · 1 in 7,441 girls

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #923Caitlynn242
More about 2001

girls

1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 7,441 of them was named Caitlynn, which outranked 94.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caitlynn
  1. #920Abagail244
  2. #920Elyssa244
  3. #920Kaliyah244
  4. #923Caitlynn242
  5. #923Patience242
  6. #925Chandler240
  7. #925Kalyn240
  8. #925Maranda240

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001