Cailyn

I’m not going to lie, it’s very close to Caitlyn. I wonder if Cailyns get mistaken for being Caitlyns often.

What I dislike about these types of names is that they are impossible to spell if someone tells you their name. You have to guess C or K, how many Y's, and whatever combination of vowels creates the "ay" in this name. If someone told me their name was "Cailyn", I would write 'Kaylin".

I like it, very decent.

Well "quite frankly" I think my name is beautiful and all of you put too much time into thinking about spelling "yn" or "ee" as a grown woman with the name I think it fits me well.

Can't imagine a grown woman with the name.

I think Cailyn is a beautiful name. I like to spell it Kaelyn (it sounds Celtic).

It "sounds Celtic"? This name neither looks or sounds Celtic to me, and by "Celtic" I think that you mean "Irish". I know Gaelic and this name is not Gaelic, just a mangled American version of either "Cailín" ("KAH-leen")(which means "girl" in Irish Gaelic and is not truly a name) or of "Caoilín" ("KAY-leen") (which means "little thin one").

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Frankly, this trend of "-yn" names is really growing old; they do not look like they will age with grace, since they belong to the young- I don't care that children grow up and then adults will bear these names, because names that end with "-yn", "-ayden", and "-ee" conjure up the image of children, of growing up with a name and an appearance that are increasingly mismatched with each passing year.