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ArchivesRe: And Thus Kaytelynne was born!
in reply to a message by namebug
I asked what made Caitlin, etc so popular in the past, but no-one answered. I'd still like to know! My parents don't even remember where they got my name from! (in the late 70's)
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To my knowledge, there wasn't a famous Caitlin who made the name prominent: variants of Katharine take turns in surfacing from time to time, like all the Kathys in the 1950s whose daughters are Kates; and then there's Kathryn and Kathleen, and the very dated Kitty as a nickname. And Caitlin was just a Katharine version whose time had come; plus, as CKE says, in Wales and Ireland it doesn't sound like Kate + Lyn so people probably saw it, liked what they thought it sounded like, and so its use snowballed.
The fact that your parents liked the 'sound' of the name but can't trace it back to a single source probably confirms this. Anyway, lucky you: most Caitlins are younger than you, so if you ever want to shed a few years or a decade or two, your name will make it easy!
The fact that your parents liked the 'sound' of the name but can't trace it back to a single source probably confirms this. Anyway, lucky you: most Caitlins are younger than you, so if you ever want to shed a few years or a decade or two, your name will make it easy!
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