Catelyn
Catelyn was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Catelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,738, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
108 babies in 2006, the peak
Catelyn peaked in 2006, when 108 girls were given it, #1,879 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,738 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,825 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,579 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,062 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,428 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,644 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,717 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,024 | 15.2 |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,359 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,116 | 29.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 52 | #3,133 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,405 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,222 | 48.3 |
| 2010 | 93 | #2,124 | 52.3 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,340 | 45.2 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,127 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,040 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,879 | 56.8 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,912 | 54.7 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,884 | 54.5 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,987 | 49.8 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,159 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,239 | 40.0 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,869 | 50.1 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,224 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,901 | 45.3 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,944 | 42.5 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,017 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,082 | 37.0 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,205 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,009 | 38.1 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,908 | 39.6 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,318 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,404 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,996 | 34.2 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,490 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,436 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,754 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,528 | 13.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Catelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Catelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Catelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catelyn, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,294 Americans ever recorded as Catelyn. The median Catelyn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,133 people named Catelyn (2,133 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 284 |
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 Catelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Catelyn are California, Texas and Georgia, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 201 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 175 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 14 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Catelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Catelyn?
Catelyn is a less common spelling of Katelyn: SSA has recorded 2,294 Catelyn and 134,206 Katelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 250,422 babies since 1880, Catelyn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 371 babies recorded by SSA was a Catelyn (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 Catelyn
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 Catelyn and names like it
- Compare Catelyn and KatelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCatelyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Catelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Catelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.