Caitlin
A girls’ name of Irish origin, meaning pure; form of Caitríona.
Caitlin by the numbers
In 2025, 33 babies in England and Wales were named Caitlin. In the US, 159 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 7,245 babies in 1988, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Names that come from Caitlin
Forms of Caitlin in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Kailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin294 in the US (2017)
- Kaylinpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Katelin290 in the US (2017)
- Kailynnpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin157 in the US (2017)
- Keylinpure; a respelling of Katelin, Caitlin or variant of Kaytlin62 in the US (2017)
- Cailynnpure; a modern respelling of Caitlyn or Caitlin40 in the US (2017)
- Caitpure; form of Caitlin or Caite6 in the US (2017)
- Katilynpure; a form of Caitlin6 in the US (2017)
- Katilynnpure; a form of Caitlin6 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caitlin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Caitlynpure; a modern variant of Caitlin or Cathleen227 in the US (2017)
- Cailingirl; young woman29 in the US (2017)
- Caitrinpure; variant of Caitríona or Catharine5 in the US (2017)
- Cailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Caitlyn87 in the US (2017)
- Carlinlittle champion; from Cathal61 in the US (2017)
- Caitlynnpure; variant of Caitlin41 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Caitlin
Names that are said the same way as Caitlin, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kaitlynpure; modern respelling of Caitlin or Katelyn929 in the US (2017)
- Kaitlynnpure; a modern spelling of Caitlín144 in the US (2017)
- Kaitlinpure; a form of Caitlin or Katherine65 in the US (2017)
- Katlynpure; a form of katherine or kathryn19 in the US (2017)
- Kaytlinpure; a form of Katelin or Caitlin18 in the US (2017)
- Katlynnpure; a form of Caitlin6 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean purity
Like Caitlin, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Caitlin
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