Kaitlin — #5037 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kaitlin

The Social Security Administration has registered 57,319 babies named Kaitlin between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaitlin currently holds the #5037 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 3,602 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaitlin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 30,820 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kaitlin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,259 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaitlin in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaitlin 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 57,319 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.