Caitlin / Caitlín ?

[Maternelle]

DH is Irish, we have an Irish surname but live in France so we can't have Niamh, my favourite, because of the spelling. No Rs as the pronunciation are too different with a French accent, so can't have Cara.
How about Caitlin, pronounced Catlin?

here are some Breton, Cornish and other Gaelic names that I like and might be pronounceable:
Annik
Katarin
Katell (there's a singer called Katell Keineg)
Tamsin (Cornish)
Sererena (Cornish for calm)
Ciara or Keira
Dara
Rhian
Noni
Aine (pronounced Ornya)

My thoughts on Caitlin are influenced by its popularity at the moment, although taken on its own sounds very pretty. You can't move for them. It's the sort of name you hear mothers squawking in the supermarket or in the park in broad Salford accent.

I love Annik, although you probably have a few of them in your family too :)

Don't like Caitlin, sorry. Quite a lot around my DDs age, and all of them have been fairly unpleasant. Plus, is not Kathleen by another spelling?

It is indeed Kathleen by another spelling.

I have a Caitlin and she has never been referred to as Catlin. You will have be prepared to spend an awful lot of time correcting people if you want them to say Catlin.

We chose that name as we actually wanted Katy but knew if we chose Catherine she would be Cathy and we didn't want that.

So we have a Caity now.

I would lump anybody who called her Caty or Catlin to be honest.

My Caitlin hates being called Catlin...
We always call her Caitlin but others call her Cait.

She would get into trouble at school for ignoring a particular teacher who always called her Catlin....
Saying 'oh, i didn't realise you meant me' in her politest tones.

Caitlin is a version of Kathleen which is my Mums name.

maternelle - every single French person I have come across - which is a few as we have holidayed there v. regularly - says Cat-leeeeen.

BBM and reeling - I wanted a Katy but kind of wanted dd to be called after dh's mum - she was Kathleen and died before we got married. So we went with Caitlin, to be normally called Katy - except we couldn't work out how to spell it as a shortening of Caitlin - so somehow never used it. she's older now and is, of her own volition, becoming Cait, which I quite like. I also knew very few others - just Caitlin Thomas. And I can't bare any of the K or Y related spellings.