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'?

Everyone that I have ever known has been Kate - lyn. But sorry, don't like it much. It was very popular 9 - 10 years ago, and every Caitlin that we came across was extremely unpleasant. But don't let me stop you

Kate-lin. I know a couple of people called Kathleen, but it's spelt like that (not Caitlin)

Kate-Lin :)

Kate-lin

Kate-Lin. Friends of ours - both Irish - have just called their DD Caitlin and also pronounce it Kate-Lin.

My dd is called Caitlin and is pronounced kate-lyn, she's the nicest child you could meet. Only had 1 or 2 people ever say kat-lyn.

Cotchleen, what age is your husband?! is he one of Peig Sayers older brothers?

i say kaytlin, and I know its origins are Irish, a form of kathleen, but I think Caitlin has an American feel.

It's Cat-leen (Gaelic form of Kathleen), but it has been anglicised / Americanised to Kate-lynn, hasn't it?

My Caitlin was named so for our Irish background so definitely no "americanisms"

definitely Kate - lyn
its a gorgeous name but never Katelyn,Kaitlyn got to be Caitlin!

My baby is called Caitlín and it does my head in that everyone assumes she is called 'katelyn'. She isn't!! It is pronounced catchleen and is the irish form of Kathleen. I live in the north of Ireland and people here have started the katelyn business as well. Make it stop!!!

I would assume it was pronounced Kate-lyn, because that is how people tend to say it, but in my head I'd be thinking "Kathleen, Kathleen, Kathleen!!!".

Kate-lin.

My dn is caitlin ( kate lyn) but in Ireland youmwould pronounce it cat-leen.

Here in Edinburgh Kate-lin but I do understand the other posters frustration of the pronunciation of gaelic names.

Ok I know this is an old thread but it's Cat leen not Kate Lyn - that's an american/australian mis pronounication that unfortunately has gained in popularity and must be stopped in it's tracks.

Actually to correct myself I would say Caw it lyn (like caught lyn) for Caitlin and Cat Leen for Kathleen. Just never Kate lyn , that's just wrong in every way

No need to speak for everybody.

I've already replied to this thread, but... my in-laws are from Connemara in the west of Ireland and they say they'd pronounce it Kate-lyn.

And by the way, in the context you've used it - it's ' its ' not ' it's '.

I know loads and they're all Kate-lynn, but I'm American. We pronounce it that way because "cait" rhymes with "wait" to us. :)

Take a deep breath, elliephant. People who live in different places pronounce words, and names, differently. I think you've lost the battle for Caitlin, and you sound fairly arrogant in telling people they're pronouncing their own or their children's names incorrectly. You clearly don't like it and I don't like a lot of variant pronunciations of different names from country to country but I certainly don't characterise them as mispronunciations.

Out of interest, do you take similar pains to pronounce names of French, Greek and German extraction according to the exact pronunciations of their origin?

To declare interests, I have none. I am not a Caitlin, have no plans to use the name, and don't know that many (and those I do use different pronunciations).

Arrogant , moi? Maybe we should take up deep breathing together Urbandaisy.

5 Dollar Shake - I'll blame all the wine I imbibed while watching the Eurovision for succumbing to bad grammer. Obviously this errant apostrophe has undermined my post and rendered it invalid.

Sticks tongue out and skips away humming

Well some of my family are from Galway which is a stone's throw from Connemara and they say Cotchleen. As do the ones from Mayo and Meath. It's my mother's name.

I do think if you're going to use a name from a particular country then you should make the effort to pronounce it correctly, otherwise you're using it purely because you like the spelling, in which case you might as well take some scrabble letters out of a bag and toss them in the air. Do a search for Siobhan on here and see how many times people have come across a See-o-ban. Is that acceptable? Or Seen for Sean because it's spelled the same as bean?

Not entering into the argument (and I presume the OP has made a decision one way or the other now :o), but just wanted to say at alittlebitshy having met Caitlin Moran...