Caitlin () is a female given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which led to many variations in spelling such as Caitlin, Catelynn, Caitlyn, Katlyn, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Katelyn and Katelynn. It is the Irish version of the Old French name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Along with the many other variants of Catherine, it is generally believed to mean "pure" because of its long association with the Greek adjective καθαρός ''katharos'' (pure), though the name did not evolve from this word.

Notable people

Literature

* Caitlin Brennan, pseudonym of Judith Tarr, American fantasy writer * Cait Brennan, American screenwriter and performer *

Caitlin Davies Caitlin Davies (born 6 March 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers.

, English writer * Caitlin Flanagan, American writer and social critic *

Caitlin R. Kiernan Caitlin () is a female given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which ...

, American dark fantasy and sci-fi author * Caitlin Matthews, British author *

Caitlin Moran Catherine Elizabeth Moran (; born 5 April 1975) is an English journalist, author, and broadcaster at ''The Times'', where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celeb ...

, English journalist and columnist *

Caitlin Thomas Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara; 8 December 1913 – 31 July 1994) was an author and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Their marriage was a stormy affair, fuelled by alcohol and infidelity, though the couple remained together until Dy ...

, formerly Caitlin Macnamara, British author, wife of poet and writer Dylan Thomas

Film and television

* Caitlin Carmichael, American movie actress *

Caitlin Clarke Caitlin Clarke (born Katherine Anne Clarke, May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film ''Dragonslayer (1981 film), Dragonslayer'' and for her role ...

, American theatre and film actress * Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress * Caitlin Wachs, American actress * Caitlin FitzGerald, American actress and filmmaker * Caitlin Carmichael, American child actress *

Caitlin Sanchez Caitlin Sanchez is an American actress, best known for being the second voice of the title character Dora in the Nickelodeon animated children's series ''Dora the Explorer''. Career In 2008, Sanchez took over the voice role of the seven-year-old ...

, American voice of the animated character ''Dora the Explorer'' * Caitlin Glass, American voice actress * Caitlin McCarthy, American actress * Kaitlin Colombo, American comedian * Caitlin/ Caity Lotz, American actress, dancer, singer * Kaitlyn Dever, American actress

Music

* Caitlin Cary, American alternative country musician *Caitlin Hanford, American and Canadian singer/songwriter and member of

Quartette In music, a quartet or quartette (, , , , ) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers; or a musical composition for four voices and instruments. Classical String quartet In classical music, one of the most common combinations o ...

and The Marigolds * Caitlin Lynn, of the country music duo Caitlin & Will * Caitlín Maude, Irish poet, singer and language activist * Kaitlyn Maher, American singer from ''America's Got Talent'' * Caitlín O'Riordan, British bass guitarist ( The Pogues) * Katelyn Tarver (born 1989), American singer/songwriter * Caitlyn Taylor Love, American singer/actress * Caitlin Rose, American singer

Politicians

* Caitlín Brugha, née Kingston, Irish politician

Sports

* Caitlin Bassett, Australian netball player * Caitlin Campbell, New Zealand footballer * Caitlin Cahow, American ice hockey player * Caitlin Carruthers, better known as

Kitty Carruthers Caitlin A. "Kitty" Carruthers (born May 30, 1961) is a former American pair skater. With her adoptive brother, Peter Carruthers, she won a 1984 Olympic Silver medal, a 1982 World Bronze medal, and had been a four-time (1981-1984) United States ...

, American figure skater * Katlyn Chookagian, American MMA fighter *

Caitlin Clark Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. She plays the point guard position. At Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, Clark was named a M ...

, American basketball player * Caitlin Cooper, Australian association footballer *

Caitlin Cunningham Caitlin Cunningham (born 17 January 1988, in Melbourne) is an Australian women's basketball player who is currently a Free Agent. Cunningham previously played in the WNBL for Adelaide Lightning, Dandenong Rangers, Bulleen Boomers (now Melbourne B ...

, Australian basketball player *

Caitlyn Edwards Caitlyn Edwards (born 27 June 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life and state football Edwards grew up in Thornlie, Western Australia, playing netball ...

, Australian rules footballer * Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer *

Caitlyn Jenner Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American media personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete. Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a kne ...

, American track & field athlete, gold medalist at the 1976 Olympics * Kaitlyn Lawes, Canadian curler * Caitlin Lever, Canadian softball player and Olympian * Caitlin Leverenz, American swimmer * Caitlin Lowe, American softball player and Olympian *

Caitlin Mallory Caitlin Mallory (born June 2, 1987) is an American former ice dancer. She is the 2005 Golden Spin of Zagreb silver medalist with Brent Holdburg. In 2008, she began appearing internationally for Estonia with Kristjan Rand. They competed in the fi ...

, American-born ice dancer * Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer *

Caitlin Munoz Caitlin Rose Munoz (born 4 October 1983) is an Australian soccer player who played for Canberra Eclipse in the Women's National Soccer League and Canberra United in the W-League. She retired from soccer after the end of the 2019 NPL ACT Wom ...

, Australian association footballer * Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast * Caitlin Parker (born 1996), Australian boxer *

Caitlin Rooskrantz Caitlin Aileen Rooskrantz (born 5 November 2001) is a South African artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. She won the uneven bars competitions at the 2018 African Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the 2019 FIG Artistic Gymna ...

(born 2001), South African gymnast * Caitlin Ryan, New Zealand canoeist * Kaitlyn (wrestler), ring name of American professional wrestler Celeste Bonin in WWE *

Kaitlin Sandeno Kaitlin Shea Sandeno (born March 13, 1983) is an American former competition swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist, world champion and former world record-holder. Sandeno was a member of the American team that set a new world record in the 4� ...

, American swimmer * Kaitlyn Vincie, American sports presenter and journalist

Others

Caitlin Brunell Caitlin Brunell (born May 17, 1992) from Great Falls, Virginia won the Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008 title in August 2007. In 2014, she was crowned Miss Alabama and represented the state at the Miss America 2015 competition where she was ...

, Miss Alabama 2015 *

Katelynn Cusanelli ''The Real World: Brooklyn'' is the twenty-first season of MTV's reality television series ''The Real World'', which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their ...

, American reality TV personality from ''The Real World: Brooklyn'' *

Caitlin Hill Caitlin Alexandra Hill (born 8 September 1988) is an Australian YouTube personality under the name TheHill88. She produces, edits and uploads her videos from her home in Brisbane, and since 2008 from New York City. Dubbed "the goofy princess of ...

, Australian YouTube personality (username "stageTheHill88") * Caitlin Kinney, American dancer and ''So You Think You Can Dance'' (season 5) contestant * Catelynn Lowell, American reality TV personality of the MTV shows

16 and Pregnant ''16 and Pregnant'' is an American reality television series that aired from June 11, 2009, to July 1, 2014, on the cable channel MTV. It followed the stories of pregnant teenage girls in high school dealing with the hardships of teenage pregnanc ...

and Teen Mom * Caitlin Myers, American professor of economics *

Caitlin Rivers Caitlin M. Rivers is an American epidemiologist who as Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing on improving epidemic preparedness ...

, American epidemiologist

Fictional characters

* Catelyn Stark, from the ''

A Song of Ice and Fire ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who init ...

'' book series and television series * '' Caitlin's Way'', US-Canadian live action children’s drama *

Caitlin Caitlin () is a female given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which ...

, in the second season of the TV series '' Heroes'' *

, in the ''Pokémon'' series; first introduced in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, she was later revealed to be an Unova Elite Four member *Caitlyn Kiramman, the Sheriff of Piltover, a playable champion character in video game '' League of Legends'' and character in the animated series '' Arcane'' * Kait(lyn), in the webcomic '' Freakangels'' * Caitlin Atkins, from Australian television series ''

Neighbours ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons an ...

'' *

Caitlin Bree This is a list of major and recurring characters in Kevin Smith's fictional universe known as the View Askewniverse. ''Clerks'' (1994) Dante Hicks Dante Hicks, played by Brian O'Halloran, is 22 (33 in ''Clerks II, 49 in Clerks III''), works at ...

, from 1994 movie ''Clerks'' *

Caitlin Cooke ''6teen'' (originally titled ''The Mall'') is a Canadian animated comedy television series originally produced by Nelvana, with the final two seasons being produced by Fresh TV. It began airing on November 7, 2004 until its final episode aired o ...

, from the show ''6teen'' * Kaitlin Cooper, from American television series '' The O.C.'' *

Caitlin Deschanel ''Sunset Beach'' was an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997, to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of C ...

, from American television series '' Sunset Beach'' * Caitlin Fairchild, from the comic Gen¹³ * Caitlyn Goodwin, from American dub of the Japanese anime series '' Ojamajo Doremi'' * Caitlin Pike, from American television series '' JAG'' *Caitlin Poythress, from the television series ''

We Are Who We Are ''We Are Who We Are'' is a 2020 coming-of-age drama television miniseries co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino for HBO and Sky Atlantic. A coming-of-age story set on a fictional U.S. military base in Chioggia, Italy in 2016, the series f ...

'' *

Caitlin Ramirez Caitlin () is a female given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which ...

, from '' The Bold and the Beautiful'' * Caitlin Ryan, from the '' Degrassi'' television series * Caitlin Snow (also known as Killer Frost) from the CW's

The Flash The Flash (or simply Flash) is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (cover date ...

* Caitlin O'Shannessy, from the American television series '' Airwolf'' * Caitlin Todd, from the American television series ''

NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement * National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom * Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...

'' * Caitlin the Streamlined engine, a recurring character in the television series '' Thomas & Friends''

Other uses of the name

Typhoon Caitlin (disambiguation) The name Caitlin has been used for two tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean. * Typhoon Caitlin, Typhoon Caitlin (1991), caused heavy rainfall in the Philippines before turning north and passing through the Korea Strait. * 1994 Pacific typ ...

, two tropical cyclones

References

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