Kaitlin
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 3,501 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 6 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 57,355since 1971
Kaitlin over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,067 | 35 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,647 | 65 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,321 | 81 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,329 | 178 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,032 | 251 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,005 | 248 | — | |
| 2012 | #837 | 319 | — | |
| 2011 | #790 | 342 | — | |
| 2010 | #662 | 441 | — | |
| 2009 | #576 | 531 | — | |
| 2008 | #473 | 673 | — | |
| 2007 | #420 | 781 | — | |
| 2006 | #344 | 957 | — | |
| 2005 | #321 | 1,003 | — | |
| 2004 | #297 | 1,101 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #264 | 1,191 | — | |
| 2002 | #219 | 1,456 | — | |
| 2001 | #180 | 1,821 | — | |
| 2000 | #158 | 2,136 | — | |
| 1999 | #155 | 2,085 | — | |
| 1998 | #120 | 2,702 | — | |
| 1997 | #119 | 2,667 | — | |
| 1996 | #103 | 3,136 | — | |
| 1995 | #94 | 3,602 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #93 | 3,501 | — | |
| 1993 | #99 | 3,226 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #113 | 2,943 | — | |
| 1991 | #99 | 3,486 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #101 | 3,472 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #100 | 3,171 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #98 | 2,841 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #141 | 1,959 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #182 | 1,466 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #208 | 1,236 | — | |
| 1984 | #339 | 682 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #427 | 506 | — | |
| 1982 | #695 | 253 | — | |
| 1981 | #773 | 211 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,053 | 135 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,857 | 57 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,516 | 34 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kaitlin! It came in at #6,619, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kaitlin is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Dakota#55 · 1 in 175
- Delaware#75 · 1 in 255
- Nebraska#76 · 1 in 283
- South Carolina#76 · 1 in 331
- Rhode Island#79 · 1 in 290
Best ever in a state: #47 in North Dakota, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #55 | 19 | 1 in 175 |
| Delaware | #75 | 14 | 1 in 255 |
| Nebraska | #76 | 30 | 1 in 283 |
| South Carolina | #76 | 57 | 1 in 331 |
| Rhode Island | #79 | 18 | 1 in 290 |
| Connecticut | #80 | 57 | 1 in 313 |
| West Virginia | #83 | 26 | 1 in 322 |
| Vermont | #84 | 8 | 1 in 298 |
| Utah | #86 | 41 | 1 in 337 |
| New Jersey | #87 | 122 | 1 in 373 |
| Wyoming | #88 | 6 | 1 in 267 |
| Ohio | #92 | 157 | 1 in 433 |
| Wisconsin | #92 | 68 | 1 in 407 |
| Alabama | #93 | 51 | 1 in 419 |
| Maryland | #93 | 64 | 1 in 420 |
| Pennsylvania | #94 | 161 | 1 in 425 |
| Minnesota | #95 | 64 | 1 in 412 |
| Kansas | #96 | 34 | 1 in 392 |
| Oklahoma | #96 | 41 | 1 in 419 |
| South Dakota | #96 | 11 | 1 in 334 |
| Missouri | #98 | 71 | 1 in 436 |
| Indiana | #101 | 73 | 1 in 455 |
| Iowa | #102 | 35 | 1 in 436 |
| Kentucky | #102 | 47 | 1 in 446 |
| Maine | #104 | 15 | 1 in 381 |
| Arizona | #108 | 53 | 1 in 494 |
| Arkansas | #108 | 26 | 1 in 456 |
| Georgia | #108 | 78 | 1 in 529 |
| Washington | #108 | 61 | 1 in 505 |
| Illinois | #109 | 143 | 1 in 526 |
| Oregon | #109 | 36 | 1 in 452 |
| Idaho | #110 | 14 | 1 in 389 |
| Michigan | #111 | 104 | 1 in 549 |
| Tennessee | #111 | 59 | 1 in 504 |
| Alaska | #112 | 9 | 1 in 360 |
| New York | #112 | 217 | 1 in 535 |
| Virginia | #113 | 70 | 1 in 521 |
| Florida | #115 | 128 | 1 in 587 |
| Montana | #118 | 8 | 1 in 419 |
| Nevada | #118 | 16 | 1 in 454 |
| New Hampshire | #120 | 11 | 1 in 532 |
| North Carolina | #120 | 65 | 1 in 613 |
| Massachusetts | #126 | 61 | 1 in 588 |
| Colorado | #127 | 36 | 1 in 587 |
| New Mexico | #128 | 18 | 1 in 515 |
| Louisiana | #148 | 32 | 1 in 741 |
| Hawaii | #160 | 8 | 1 in 600 |
| Texas | #173 | 154 | 1 in 893 |
| Mississippi | #190 | 14 | 1 in 920 |
| District of Columbia | #199 | 7 | 1 in 752 |
| California | #218 | 225 | 1 in 1,141 |
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 Kaitlin
- 826 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #4,067)
- 786 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #4,067)
- 2,738 spots since 2015 (#1,329 → #4,067)
- Biggest jump: 280 spots in 1981 (#1,053 → #773)
- Biggest drop: 168 spots in 2013 (#837 → #1,005)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1994 at #93 (3,501 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 6 yrs · run 1993–1995
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1981–2012
- Highest: 1 in 488 girls born in 1995 were named Kaitlin (0.20%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #93 in 1994, was only 1 in 510 (0.20%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 53.7% of all girls named Kaitlin (30,820) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 166 | #1,857 (1979) | #4,622 |
| 1980s | 12,460 | #98 (1988) | #402 |
| 1990s | 30,820 | #93 (1994) | #110 |
| 2000s | 11,650 | #158 (2000) | #325 |
| 2010s | 2,058 | #662 (2010) | #1,585 |
| 2020s | 201 | #3,281 (2020) | #4,331 |
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.
Kaitlin in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 627 of them was named Kaitlin, which outranked 99.3% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.