Caitlin vs Emily.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Okay, i am super bored & ill today so forgive me for this pointless post.. though it is rather interesting i suppose...

The name Caitlin seems to have a bad vibe in this community, but i personally really love it.
I always see comments like "The world doesnt need another Kaitlyn/Caitlyn/Katelin" Now... i never really took it seriously that it was so overused, as I don't hear it very often but looking through the latest 1005 names for 2005 i realised how many different spellings there are, it's rather ridiculous!!

Emily has been number 1 since 1996, so i decided to pit all varients of Caitlin (im sticking with the original spelling, and best as far as im concerned!) against Emily. The numbers in bold are the number of births in 2005 with that name.
(Ranking)
Kaitlyn- 34 6,423
Katelyn- 58 4,856
Caitlyn- 181 1,871
Caitlin- 193 1,752
Katelynn- 296 1,090
Kaitlin- 317 993
Kaitlynn- 470 639
Katlyn- 614 452
Katelin- 979 246
=18,323

Emily- 1 23,544
Emilie- 616 938
Emilee- 334 616
Emmalee- 638 429
=25,527
Okay, so if the spellings are grouped together obviously Emily is still number 1, but really not by much at all...Caitlin comes in at number 4, above Abigail and below Madison. there are only 5,221 more Emily's in the united states than Caitlin's. Which is weird considering the first spelling "Kaitlyn" is as low as 34.


So really... Caitlin & friends is the 4th most popular name, and not by much either!
I still like it, but definetly wouldnt use it.

(it's been pointed out that there are loads of names like caitlin/kaylin that run in similar vein so even with taking out kaylin (which was somewhat of an afterthought anyway)...
The top 5 stands:

Emily- 23,544
Madison- 20,723
Emma- 19,976
Caitlin-18,323
Abigail-16,754

Comments

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i really like the name caitlin, but dont know that i would ever use it, unfortunately. my mother wanted to name me katelyn but my father wouldnt have it because he wanted another C name, and caitlin wasnt really an option in 1971. my mother passed away two years ago and she always loved the name kate, so i kind of want to name my first daughter kate or some variation. my aunts name is kathleen, a name i love, but i dont really want to name my kid after her. im still trying to come up with a good solution.

cant stand the name emily. bad association for me...