How would you pronounce Caitlin?

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Top of our list for DD2 is Caitlin but I am now having a slight wobble due to a friend of mine assuming it would be pronounced wrongly differently to me.

How would you pronounce it? Like 'Kate-Lin' or 'Cat-Lin'?

Kate - lin

Kate-Lin

DD 2s friend has this name, we pronounce it Kate-Lin .

Kate -Lin

but isn't the irish pronunciation kathleen?

I'd say Kate-lin, DH would say Kat-leen.

Kate-Lin (I have a Kate-Lin (spelt Caitlin), so think it's a lovely name).

i'd say kate-lin ad i assume most people would.
The only Cat-lin i've met was the times writer Caitlin moran and i presumed hers was NOT the norm.

nice name:)

Kate-lin. I think Cat-lin is the Welsh pronounciation.

Chickens - is your DH Irish?

I've always thought Kate-lin would be the most usual pronunciation. Lots of DPs family are Irish and i'm wondering if they are going to pronounce it kat-leen and we are setting ourselves up for a pronunciation battle with them :)

I think the proper pronunciation is more kath-leen or Kat-lin but the anglicised version is Kate - lin.

DD1's middle name is Caitlin which we pronounce Kate-lyn but is after my mum's middle name Kathleen.

I would pronounce it kat-lin.

maryz in NI most people would prounce it Kate-lin (except my dd2 who calls ds's friend cakelin)
which is a reason that I really don't like it as it really should be as maryz say Kat(ch)-leen, my irish teacher would have a fit, we had to to call our friend Cathy, Cait (can't do fada) pronounced Kitch if that makes sense
(it does in my head)

Kate-lin

Kate-lin around my parts here (Ireland).

used to be catlin now katelin for some reason

Cotch-leen, it's my mother's name and over here she's Kathleen not Kate-lin.

kate lin

Kate-lin in my area (south west Wales).. Actually always thought it was a Welsh name?

DD's middle name is Caitlin, and DH's side of the family is Irish. We took her to a favourite aunt in Ireland when she was a year old who told us with delight she had heard that people in England pronounce cotch-leen as cate-lin and could you believe that and wasn't it funny what the English do.

We didn't fess up that that's how we pronounce Caitlin anyway (although as a middle name it's less of an issue day to day anyway).

The 'tch' is so soft it's very similar to the Welsh 'll' sound.

Ivegotmrbitey - I think a lot of people assumed Caitlin is Welsh as well because of Caitlin Thomas (Dylan Thomas's missus), but she was Irish.

My mother is irish and she would say 'kathleen'

kate - lin

copying my irish friends who called their middle dc this
are we wrong???

DH is indeed Irish :)

Kate- lin
But DH would say (Cotchleen) Kathleen