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Kaytlen

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAYT-lin
Origin
Irish

Kaytlen is a girls' name of Irish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Kaytlen mean?

Irish: spelling of Kaytlin, itself a variant of Caitlin, the Irish form of Catherine

Caitlin reached Ireland through Cateline, the Norman French form of Catherine.

Meaning borrowed from Kaytlin.

Is Kaytlen a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaytlen is a girls' name.

How popular is Kaytlen in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Kaytlen in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 14 in 20042012
Kaytlen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20125#16,863
20110–
20105#16,985
20099#11,454
20089#11,594
20077#13,918
20069#11,412
20058#11,828
200414#7,823
200311#9,043
200211#8,831
20019#10,095
200013#7,574
199912#7,710
199810#8,579
19979#9,012
199610#8,127
19956#11,778
199412#7,091
19935#13,435
19928#9,483
19918#9,328
19906#11,403
19895#12,356
19885#11,792

Nicknames for Kaytlen

Names like Kaytlen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Kaytlen

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaytlen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaytlen, updated 20 October 2026.