Feminine dossier · first seen 1983

Caitlan

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Caitlan
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1990

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Millennial

1983Peak 19902024

Peak year

1990

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,047

Caitlan has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Millennial naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1990, when 88 girls were named Caitlan.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,047 Americans have been named Caitlan and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1983.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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