Kaitlan
Kaitlan was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 1,119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Kaitlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 28 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaitlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaitlan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,188, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1990, the peak
Kaitlan peaked in 1990, when 107 girls were given it, #1,455 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,188 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,401 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,066 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,761 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,044 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,882 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,348 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,769 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,823 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,371 | 15.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 42 | #3,234 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,122 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,204 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,293 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,236 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,748 | 47.2 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,147 | 35.3 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,905 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,135 | 34.2 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,963 | 37.9 |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,455 | 56.4 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,691 | 43.9 |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,036 | 32.6 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,208 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,251 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,046 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,498 | 5.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,777 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaitlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaitlan 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 Kaitlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaitlan, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,119 Americans ever recorded as Kaitlan. The median Kaitlan alive today is 32 years old; half are between 28 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,066 people named Kaitlan (1,066 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 728 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 368 |
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 Kaitlan born?
The states with the most babies named Kaitlan are California, Texas and Illinois, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 104 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 84 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | 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 Kaitlan 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 430,856 babies since 1880, Kaitlan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 577 babies recorded by SSA was a Kaitlan (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 Kaitlan
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 Kaitlan and names like it
- Compare Kaitlan and KaitlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaitlan peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaitlan since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kaitlan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kaitlan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.