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 Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligi ...

name ''Cateline'' , which comes from

Catherine Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christ ...

, which in turn comes from the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to

St. Catherine of Alexandria Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine); grc-gre, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ; ar, سانت كاترين; la, Catharina Alexandrina). is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, w ...

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

Film and television

* Caitlin Carmichael, American movie actress * Caitlin Clarke, American theatre and film actress *

Caitlin Stasey Caitlin Jean Stasey (born 1 May 1990) is an Australian actress and singer. She is known for her role as Rachel Kinski in '' Neighbours''. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in '' The Sleepover Club'', although her breakthrough movie role c ...

, Australian actress * Caitlin Wachs, American actress * Caitlin FitzGerald, American actress and filmmaker * Caitlin Carmichael, American child actress * Caitlin Sanchez, American voice of the animated character ''Dora the Explorer'' *

Caitlin Glass Caitlin Tiffany Glass (born November 16, 1981) is an American voice actress, ADR director, and script writer at Funimation, New Generation Pictures and Bang Zoom! Entertainment who provides voices for English versions of Japanese anime series ...

, American voice actress *

Caitlin McCarthy Caitlin McCarthy (born 1989) is an American actress and producer, best known for playing Caroline Krieger, daughter of bio-terrorist Michael Krieger ( Marc Menard) on the My Network TV telenovela '' Watch Over Me''. Biography Native of Boulder ...

, American actress *

Kaitlin Colombo Kaitlin Colombo is an American stand-up comedian, television personality, writer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for her brief but noteworthy audition for NBC's reality series '' Last Comic Standing'' where she was named "Online Fan Favor ...

, American comedian * Caitlin/

Caity Lotz Caitlin Marie Lotz (born December 30, 1986) is an American actress, dancer and singer. She has portrayed Stephanie Horton in ''Mad Men'', Officer Kirsten Landry in the MTV mockumentary series ''Death Valley'' (2011), Annie in '' The Pact'' (2013 ...

, American actress, dancer, singer *

Kaitlyn Dever Kaitlyn Rochelle Dever (; born December 21, 1996) is an American actress. She gained recognition for her roles in the FX crime drama television series '' Justified'' (2011–2015), the ABC/Fox sitcom '' Last Man Standing'' (2011–2021), the Ne ...

, American actress

Music

Caitlin Cary Caitlin Cary (born October 28, 1968) is an alternative country musician and visual artist from Seville, Ohio. Early life Caitlin Cary is the youngest of seven siblings (all older brothers). Her entire family was involved in music to some degree ...

, 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 Caitlin & Will were an American country music duo, consisting of members Caitlin Lynn and Will Snyder, that rose to fame when they won season one of CMT's '' Can You Duet''. After winning, they signed with Columbia Nashville. They initially inten ...

Caitlín Maude Caitlín Maude (22 May 1941 – 6 June 1982) was an Irish poet, activist, teacher, actress and traditional singer. Early life She was born in Casla, County Galway, and reared in the Irish language. Her mother, Máire Nic an Iomaire, was a ...

, Irish poet, singer and language activist *

Kaitlyn Maher Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10, 2004) is an American teen singer and actress known for being the Youngest Top 10 Finalist on America's Got Talent and for her roles in films such as '' The Search for Santa Paws'', '' Santa Paws 2'', '' Free ...

, American singer from ''America's Got Talent'' * Caitlín O'Riordan, British bass guitarist (

The Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse ...

) * Katelyn Tarver, 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 Stat ...

, American figure skater * Katlyn Chookagian, American MMA fighter * Caitlin Clark, 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, 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 knee i ...

, 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, 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) Celeste Beryl Bonin (born October 7, 1986) is an American entrepreneur, bodybuilder, model, and professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE from 2010 to 2014 and 2018 to 2019, under the ring name Kaitlyn, where she is a former ...

, ring name of American professional wrestler Celeste Bonin in WWE * Kaitlin Sandeno, 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 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 in ...

'' book series and

television series A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed ...

* '' 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 , whic ...

, 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 ''League of Legends'' (''LoL''), commonly referred to as ''League'', is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a custom map for ''Warcraft III'', Ri ...

'' and character in the animated series ''

Arcane Arcane may refer to: Books and comics * Anton Arcane, a DC Comics character * Arcane Jill Watson, a character in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' * Arcane literature, such as in Cthulhu Mythos Gaming * Arcane magic (''Dungeons & Drago ...

'' * Kait(lyn), in the webcomic '' Freakangels'' * Caitlin Atkins, from Australian television series '' Neighbours'' *

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. ''The O.C. '' is an American teen drama television series created by Josh Schwartz that originally aired on the Fox network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. "O.C." is an initialis ...

'' * Caitlin Deschanel, from American television series '' Sunset Beach'' * Caitlin Fairchild, from the comic

Gen¹³ ''Gen¹³'' is a superhero team and comic book series originally written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. It was published by WildStorm under the Image Comics banner, which went on to become an imprint for DC Comi ...

* Caitlyn Goodwin, from American dub of the Japanese anime series ''

Ojamajo Doremi , alternatively titled ''Magical DoReMi'' in English, is a Japanese magical girl anime television series created by Toei Animation. It focuses on a group of elementary school girls, led by Doremi Harukaze, who become witch appren ...

'' * Caitlin Pike, from American television series '' JAG'' *Caitlin Poythress, from the television series '' We Are Who We Are'' *

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 ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (often referred to as ''B&B'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Yo ...

'' * Caitlin Ryan, from the ''

Degrassi ''Degrassi'' is a Canadian television franchise created by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler in 1979. It is centred on a multigenerational teen drama about an ensemble cast of teenagers attending the namesake Toronto school as they navigate their ...

'' 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 dat ...

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

Airwolf ''Airwolf'' is an American action military drama television series that centers on a high-technology military helicopter, code-named ''Airwolf'', and its crew. The show follows them as they undertake various exotic missions, many involving e ...

'' * 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 ''Thomas & Friends'' (originally known as ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' and later ''Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!'') is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on ''The ...

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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