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.
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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 488 of them was named Kaitlin, which outranked 99.4% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 190,370 of them was named Kaitlin, which outranked 46.7% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,124Zakk11
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- #5,124Zuriel11
- #5,501Kaitlin10
- #5,501Aaric10
- #5,501Abdoulaye10
- #5,501Abdulkareem10
- #5,928Abdulah9
- #5,928Abdur9
- #5,928Abrham9
Tied with 426 names at #5,501; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.