Caylin
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 27 babies a year in the US.
Caylin by the numbers
Caylin was given to 27 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 142 babies in 2009, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Caylin
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caylin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Caylin
Names that are said the same way as Caylin, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Callanpowerful warrior; a form of cailean393 in the US (2017)
- 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)
- Kaylynpure; a modern respelling of Kaitlyn or Katelyn130 in the US (2017)
- Cailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Caitlyn87 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Caylin
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