Caitlin

See also: Caitlín

English

Alternative forms

• Caitlyn, Catelyn, Catelin, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Katelyn, Katelin, Katelynn

Proper noun

Caitlin (plural Caitlins)

1. A female given name from Irish Caitlín, equivalent to English Catherine.
   • 1997, Bernard Alger Drew, The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Biographies‎^[1], page 327:

     Beautiful, charming, rich, clever Caitlin needs one thing: love.

   • 2003, Helena Pielichaty, After School Club‎^[2], page 3:

     Caitlin is sixteen and a sixth former at The Magna and is under a lot of pressure with exams.

   • 2006, Suzanne Holland, “The Integrity Conundrum”, in Carol Taylor, Roberto Dell'Oro, editors, Health And Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, And Moral Anthropology, page 114:

     Sixteen-year-old Caitlin — and all our nieces and sisters and friends — need to grow up in a culture that prizes difference, not conformity.

See also

• Kathleen

Anagrams

• litanic

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old French Cateline (compare Norman Cathelène).

Proper noun

Caitlin f (vocative a Chaitlin)

1. a diminutive of the female given name Catrìona, from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Kathleen

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
Caitlin	Chaitlin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.