Caitlin
About fifty Polish women carry this name, so most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Celtic roots and means "pure", and Polish mouths turn it into tsah-EET-leen.
Caitlin Pronunciation
Caitlin is pronounced tsah-EET-leen (/t͡saˈitlin/).
What Caitlin means
Where Caitlin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Caitlin is the Irish form of Katherine. Gaelic speakers reshaped the Old French Cateline into their own sound, and Irish is a Celtic language, so this spelling belongs to that Celtic line. The older name behind it reaches back to the Greek Aikaterine, whose first meaning stays debated.
The sense of "pure" was attached later. Medieval writers linked Katherine to the Greek word katharos, meaning clean or clear, and the reading held. That is why Caitlin now takes "pure" in English and czysta in Polish, though the root itself never promised it.
On a Polish class register, Caitlin keeps its Irish shape among the Kasias and Kalinas. It has no name-day of its own, so a girl called Caitlin might share the imieniny of Katarzyna on 25 November. The link between the two names is old, and both descend from Katherine.
How many people are named Caitlin
1 in 442036 women in Poland is named Caitlin. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5255 among female names.
Caitlin as a middle name
Caitlin is a first name for 51 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1897th, between Borysława (15) and Carlota (15).
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#1895 Bonnie15
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#1896 Borysława15
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#1897 Caitlin15
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#1898 Carlota15
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#1899 Chaja15