Caitriona
Caitriona was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,351 among girls’ names; 266 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caitriona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caitriona?
#15,351 among girls’ names, 2025
Caitriona fell from #9,591 in 2015 to #15,351 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
17 babies in 2018, the peak
Caitriona peaked in 2018, when 17 girls were given it, #6,850 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,351 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,401 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,159 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,693 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,865 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,850 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,852 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,718 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,591 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,182 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,312 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,030 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,885 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,730 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,996 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,359 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,936 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,609 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,479 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,857 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,234 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,763 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,444 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,706 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,681 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,752 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,968 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,094 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caitriona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caitriona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caitriona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caitriona, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Caitriona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Caitriona (317 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 236 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,192 babies since 1880, Caitriona is the third most given (2.4% of them).
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 Caitriona
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 Caitriona and names like it
- Compare Caitriona and CatrinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaitriona peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Caitriona.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caitriona alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.