Caitlan
Caitlan was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,047 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Caitlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 29 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caitlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caitlan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,367, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1990, the peak
Caitlan peaked in 1990, when 88 girls were given it, #1,668 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,367 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,796 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,745 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,963 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,563 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,901 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,823 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,790 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,226 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,598 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 31 | #3,814 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,123 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,826 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,477 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,081 | 37.0 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,290 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,042 | 37.0 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,853 | 41.2 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,930 | 38.4 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,668 | 46.4 |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,732 | 42.3 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,542 | 48.3 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,726 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,626 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,632 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,342 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,185 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caitlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caitlan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caitlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caitlan, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,047 Americans ever recorded as Caitlan. The median Caitlan alive today is 33 years old; half are between 29 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 940 people named Caitlan (938 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,030 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 747 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 277 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caitlan born?
The states with the most babies named Caitlan are California, Texas and Florida, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 114 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 88 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caitlan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 398,028 babies since 1880, Caitlan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 535 babies recorded by SSA was a Caitlan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caitlan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caitlan and names like it
- Compare Caitlan and KaitlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCaitlan peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caitlan since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Caitlan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Caitlan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.