as a First Name
(Irish) equivalent of Katherine, pronounced ‘kat-leen’. It is being used increasingly in the English-speaking world, generally without the accent and with the pronunciation ‘kate-lin’.
| 729th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 56,330
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 106,584
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Caitlin per capita
- 1988
- marked the height of its popularity
99.97%
0.03%
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55+
3%
30-54
30-54
56%
13-29
13-29
41%
0-12
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