Caitlyn
#2,485 for girls in 2025, 71 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #6,138
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 2,937 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 52,603since 1968
Caitlyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Caitlyn has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #2,485 | 71 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,641 | 127 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,632 | 127 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,186 | 198 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,170 | 206 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,091 | 232 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,049 | 249 | — | |
| 2015 | #598 | 494 | — | |
| 2014 | #462 | 692 | — | |
| 2013 | #406 | 754 | — | |
| 2012 | #378 | 826 | — | |
| 2011 | #343 | 930 | — | |
| 2010 | #302 | 1,071 | — | |
| 2009 | #256 | 1,279 | — | |
| 2008 | #227 | 1,492 | — | |
| 2007 | #213 | 1,611 | — | |
| 2006 | #200 | 1,755 | — | |
| 2005 | #182 | 1,898 | — | |
| 2004 | #165 | 2,030 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #160 | 2,080 | — | |
| 2002 | #148 | 2,266 | — | |
| 2001 | #133 | 2,536 | — | |
| 2000 | #118 | 2,835 | — | |
| 1999 | #124 | 2,673 | — | |
| 1998 | #115 | 2,937 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #133 | 2,364 | — | |
| 1996 | #138 | 2,334 | — | |
| 1995 | #138 | 2,302 | — | |
| 1994 | #150 | 2,171 | — | |
| 1993 | #153 | 2,044 | — | |
| 1992 | #156 | 1,970 | — | |
| 1991 | #185 | 1,609 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #183 | 1,587 | — | |
| 1989 | #221 | 1,234 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #222 | 1,171 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #387 | 596 | — | |
| 1986 | #410 | 537 | — | |
| 1985 | #532 | 373 | — | |
| 1984 | #762 | 212 | — | |
| 1983 | #942 | 157 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,243 | 105 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caitlyn! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Caitlyn is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Hampshire#89 · 1 in 390
- Delaware#91 · 1 in 389
- Rhode Island#97 · 1 in 433
- Vermont#109 · 1 in 436
- Massachusetts#115 · 1 in 582
Best ever in a state: #38 in North Dakota, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #89 | 17 | 1 in 390 |
| Delaware | #91 | 9 | 1 in 389 |
| Rhode Island | #97 | 12 | 1 in 433 |
| Vermont | #109 | 6 | 1 in 436 |
| Massachusetts | #115 | 64 | 1 in 582 |
| Maine | #116 | 12 | 1 in 511 |
| Montana | #128 | 7 | 1 in 504 |
| Maryland | #131 | 38 | 1 in 683 |
| Oregon | #134 | 23 | 1 in 682 |
| Pennsylvania | #139 | 90 | 1 in 777 |
| New Jersey | #145 | 53 | 1 in 855 |
| Washington | #171 | 31 | 1 in 900 |
| West Virginia | #186 | 8 | 1 in 1,083 |
| Minnesota | #189 | 23 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Iowa | #191 | 15 | 1 in 1,043 |
| Wisconsin | #192 | 25 | 1 in 1,146 |
| Kansas | #199 | 13 | 1 in 1,101 |
| New York | #205 | 91 | 1 in 1,253 |
| Illinois | #213 | 57 | 1 in 1,293 |
| Colorado | #222 | 16 | 1 in 1,304 |
| Connecticut | #227 | 13 | 1 in 1,442 |
| Michigan | #227 | 38 | 1 in 1,511 |
| Missouri | #228 | 22 | 1 in 1,439 |
| Nebraska | #230 | 7 | 1 in 1,293 |
| Idaho | #237 | 5 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Ohio | #239 | 44 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Louisiana | #255 | 19 | 1 in 1,385 |
| North Carolina | #255 | 24 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Hawaii | #257 | 5 | 1 in 995 |
| Oklahoma | #262 | 11 | 1 in 1,582 |
| Florida | #270 | 43 | 1 in 1,696 |
| Indiana | #275 | 19 | 1 in 1,785 |
| Arizona | #277 | 17 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Kentucky | #280 | 11 | 1 in 1,860 |
| Georgia | #297 | 21 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Texas | #306 | 69 | 1 in 1,859 |
| Virginia | #308 | 17 | 1 in 2,110 |
| Tennessee | #310 | 14 | 1 in 2,066 |
| Alabama | #320 | 11 | 1 in 1,965 |
| South Carolina | #329 | 9 | 1 in 2,082 |
| Arkansas | #331 | 6 | 1 in 2,060 |
| California | #336 | 115 | 1 in 1,986 |
| Utah | #460 | 5 | 1 in 2,716 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Caitlyn
- 138 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,485)
- 853 spots since 2020 (#1,632 → #2,485)
- 1,887 spots since 2015 (#598 → #2,485)
- Biggest jump: 301 spots in 1983 (#1,243 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 451 spots in 2016 (#598 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #115 (2,937 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1983–2015
- Highest: 1 in 602 girls born in 1998 were named Caitlyn (0.17%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,638 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.8% of all girls named Caitlyn (21,991) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,052 (1979) | #6,161 |
| 1980s | 4,473 | #221 (1989) | #922 |
| 1990s | 21,991 | #115 (1998) | #148 |
| 2000s | 19,782 | #118 (2000) | #180 |
| 2010s | 5,652 | #302 (2010) | #699 |
| 2020s | 629 | #1,632 (2020) | #1,953 |
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.
Caitlyn in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 1,521 of them was named Caitlyn, which outranked 98.4% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 382,857 of them was named Caitlyn, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,225 names at #7,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.