Katelin

Where Katelin comes from

Katelin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #8,444 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Katelin Guregian born
    American rower
  3. 1993
    Peak, #539
    444 babies named Katelin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1998
    Katelin Talbert born
    American soccer player
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,308.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Katelin Guregian · American rower, born 1987
  • Katelin Talbert · American soccer player, born 1998
  • Katelin Petersen · American actress, born 1989
  • Katelin McInerney · Australian politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.