Kaitlin
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning pure; a form of Caitlin or Katherine.
Kaitlin by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Kaitlin. In the US, 65 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 3,602 babies in 1995, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Caitlin
Like Kaitlin, each of these traces back to Caitlin: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Kaylinpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Katelin290 in the US (2017)
- Kailynnpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin157 in the US (2017)
- Cailynpure; a modern respelling of Caitlin or Caitlyn87 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)
Other names that come from Katherine
Like Kaitlin, each of these traces back to Katherine: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Katiepure; a diminutive of Katherine770 in the US (2017)
- Katelynpure; a modern variant of Katherine760 in the US (2017)
- Kathrynpure; variant spelling of Katherine744 in the US (2017)
- Kitdiminutive of Christopher or Katherine413 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kaelynpure; a modern variant of Katelyn or Katherine332 in the US (2017)
- Kathleenpure; a form of Katherine310 in the US (2017)
- Katrinavariant of Katherine; pure or unsullied193 in the US (2017)
- Katerinapure; a form of Katherine167 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kaitlin. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Kaitlin
Names that are said the same way as Kaitlin, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Caitlynpure; a modern variant of Caitlin or Cathleen227 in the US (2017)
- Caitlinpure; form of Caitríona33 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kaitlynnpure; a modern spelling of Caitlín144 in the US (2017)
- Caitlynnpure; variant of Caitlin41 in the US (2017)
- Katlynpure; a form of katherine or kathryn19 in the US (2017)
- Katlynnpure; a form of Caitlin6 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean purity
Like Kaitlin, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Kaitlin
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