Entry № 1719 · Irish origin

Caitlin Caitlin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KATE-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Pure (Caitlin Clark, basketball record-breaker)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "pure (caitlin clark, basketball record-breaker)".

Caitlin is the Irish form of Catherine — from the Greek katharos (pure). Time Athlete of the Year (2024).

Subject of countless 2024 sports retrospectives.

Pure (Caitlin Clark, basketball record-breaker) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Caitlín
Transliteration
Caitlín
Pronunciation
/ ˈkeɪt.lɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Caitlin stands.

Caitlin does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Caitlins before her.

Real people
Caitlin Clark
American basketball player.
born 2002
Caitlin Moran
British journalist.
born 1975
In fiction
Caitlin
Friday Night Lights.
2006

Names connected to Caitlin.

The number behind Caitlin.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Caitlin reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.