Caitlin is an English and Irish name, which via French goes back to the Greek name Aikaterine. Its origin is unclear, it could be derived from ‘hekateros’ meaning ‘each of the two’, or from ‘katharos’ meaning ‘pure’.
Caitlin is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Caitlin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Caitlin ranks 797. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Caitlin. In the entire USA, approximately 109,865 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Caitlin. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Caitlin is an English and Irish name, which via French goes back to the Greek name Aikaterine. Its origin is unclear, it could be derived from ‘hekateros’ meaning ‘each of the two’, or from ‘katharos’ meaning ‘pure’.
The name Caitlin was... very popular in the 1980s, but lost popularity quite quickly in the 1990s.
The name Caitlin may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Caitlin is apparently especially popular in New Hampshire. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 543 women in New Hampshire is called Caitlin. In total, that’s 867 women who feel addressed when the name Caitlin is shouted loudly across New Hampshire and who ensure that their name makes it to #162 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Caitlin as the answer a total of 109,859 times. This places Caitlin at #307 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Caitlin as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Caitlin has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Caitlin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Caitlin, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Igloo
Tiger
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Caitlin
Caitlin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
I
T
L
I
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
I
T
L
I
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Caitlin sounds like this:
