Catlin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Catlin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,055 babies named Catlin between 1970 and 2011, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Catlin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 69 babies received it in a single year. Catlin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 446 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Catlin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 536 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Catlin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Catlin in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Catlin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,055 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.