first name
CAITLYNN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,185 people named Caitlynn, 78.6% reported their origin as White, 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Caitlynn peaked in 1998, when 297 babies got the name.
At least 4,947 babies have been given the name since 1985. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Caitlynn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,824. The largest share of babies named Caitlynn, 66%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Caitlynn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Caitlynn has been most common in Arizona (2.2×), Oklahoma (2×), and Indiana (1.9×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.51×).
3,150 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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