Kaitlyn

Where Kaitlyn comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Kaitlyn.

  • Irish
Kaitlyn through the years
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #8,324 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Kaitlyn Dever born
    American actress
  3. 2000
    Peak, #30
    8,759 babies named Kaitlyn, the most in any year.
  4. 2004
    Kaitlyn Maher born
    American actress
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #67.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish, one of the modern spelling variants of Caitlin.
Namesakes
  • Kaitlyn Dever · American actress, born 1996
  • Kaitlyn Maher · American actress, born 2004
  • Kaitlyn Ashley · American pornographic actress, born 1971
  • Kaitlyn Lawes · Canadian curler, born 1988
  • Kaitlyn Farrington · American snowboarder and gold medalist, born 1989

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.