Catlin
Catlin was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 1,501 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Catlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 30 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Catlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Catlin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,637, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
119 babies in 1988, the peak
Catlin peaked in 1988, when 119 babies were given it (53 girls, #2,156 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #13,637 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,748 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,831 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,126 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,263 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,324 | 5 | #12,331 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,590 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,242 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,855 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,288 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 35 | #3,717 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,740 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,448 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,371 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,663 | 8 | #6,695 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,592 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,156 | 5 | #9,057 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,353 | 8 | #6,447 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,381 | 9 | #5,823 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,550 | 13 | #4,347 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,992 | 20 | #3,120 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,200 | 42 | #1,838 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,481 | 41 | #1,828 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,156 | 66 | #1,261 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,027 | 48 | #1,483 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,269 | 51 | #1,387 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,712 | 67 | #1,135 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,159 | 57 | #1,213 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,917 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,247 | 6 | #5,735 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,497 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,866 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,425 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,146 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Catlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,501 Americans recorded as Catlin, 70% are girls and 30% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Catlin every year since 1990.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Catlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Catlin, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,501 Americans ever recorded as Catlin. The median Catlin alive today is 35 years old; half are between 30 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,473 people named Catlin (1,075 women and girls, 398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,467 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 354 |
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).
How common is the spelling Catlin?
Catlin is a less common spelling of Katlyn: SSA has recorded 1,501 Catlin and 18,438 Katlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 260,134 babies since 1880, Catlin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 196 babies recorded by SSA was a Catlin (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 Catlin
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 Catlin and names like it
- Compare Catlin and KatlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCatlin peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Catlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Catlin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Catlin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.