About the name Caitlyn
Caitlyn belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Caitlyn first appears in Social Security records in 1968. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #115 in 1998, and in 2024 78 babies received the name — 52,531 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.