@magni.fy: The Most Inconvenient Name In the World @itscaitlinhello @katelyn.tarver Katelyn might be the most inconvenient name in the world, and it’s all thanks to the lawless nature of English spelling. Plenty of names have alternate spellings— Isabel vs. Ysabel... Steven vs. Stephen—but none quite compare to the chaos of Katelyn. It’s a name with nearly infinite permutations: Caitlin, Kaitlyn, Katelynn, Catelyn, Katelin, Caitlyn, Katlynn, and more. And unlike some names where one version dominates, Katelyn’s variants are so evenly distributed that no single spelling feels like the “correct” one. The original Irish Caitlín was already reshaped for English speakers, but once it hit an alphabet with no firm spelling laws, all bets were off.