# Kaitlyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaitlyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Kait |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 166,921 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 232 / 166,689 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,160, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,908 | 100 |
| 2012 | 2,601 | 118 |
| 2013 | 2,379 | 134 |
| 2014 | 2,060 | 160 |
| 2015 | 1,663 | 197 |
| 2016 | 999 | 331 |
| 2017 | 938 | 346 |
| 2018 | 805 | 386 |
| 2019 | 701 | 444 |
| 2020 | 624 | 488 |
| 2021 | 520 | 583 |
| 2022 | 470 | 630 |
| 2023 | 483 | 619 |
| 2024 | 453 | 650 |
| 2025 | 340 | 802 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 8 | 6,680 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,546 |
| 1997 | 10 | 5,870 |
| 1998 | 8 | 7,202 |
| 1999 | 10 | 6,270 |
| 2000 | 12 | 5,743 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7,929 |
| 2002 | 7 | 8,924 |
| 2003 | 11 | 6,496 |
| 2004 | 35 | 2,926 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,368 |
| 2006 | 11 | 7,179 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,565 |
| 2008 | 9 | 8,656 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,473 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 270 | 192 |
| 2012 | 245 | 206 |
| 2013 | 207 | 240 |
| 2014 | 175 | 274 |
| 2015 | 137 | 345 |
| 2016 | 111 | 405 |
| 2017 | 105 | 420 |
| 2018 | 77 | 540 |
| 2019 | 64 | 616 |
| 2020 | 32 | 1,044 |
| 2021 | 36 | 957 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,282 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,672 |
| 2025 | 23 | 1,362 |

## People named Kaitlyn

- Kaitlyn Dever, American actress (born 1996)
- Kaitlyn Maher, American actress
- Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
- Kaitlyn Lawes, Canadian curler
- Kaitlyn Farrington, American snowboarder and gold medalist
- Kaitlyn Weaver, American-Canadian ice dancer
- Kaitlyn Black, American actress
- Kaitlyn Santa Juana, actress
- Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist
- Amouranth, American live streamer and businesswoman (born 1993)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.