Zeitlin (Yiddish: צייטלין) is a matronymic Jewish surname. It is derived from the female name Zeitl according to the rules of Slavic languages, with the possessive suffix '-in' and literally means "Zeitl's".
When transliterated from Yiddish to Russian to English, the surname may be spelled as follows. Male forms: Tseytlin, Tseitlin, Tsetlin, Tzeitlin. Female forms (usually only for Slavic nationals): Tseytlina, Tseitlina, Tsetlina, Tzeitlina.
When transliterated via Polish, the surname may be spelled as Cejtlin, Cajtlin, Zejtlin, Zajtlin.
The surname may refer to:
- Aaron Zeitlin (1889/1896/1898, Gomel - 1973, New York City), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet
- Alexander Zeitlin
- Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), US film-maker
- Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist
- Elchanan Zeitlin (1902-1941) Polish-Jewish poet and journalist, son of Hillel Zeitlin (pl)
- Froma Zeitlin, American-Jewish professor of Classics
- (Y)Evsey L'vovich Tseytlin (Zeitlin) (born 1948, Omsk), Russian writer, literary man (de)
- Hillel Zeitlin (1871 - 1942), Polish Yiddish writer
- Jacob Zeitlin, (1902 - 1984), American bookseller and poet
- Jonathan Zeitlin (b. 1955) Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
- Joshua Zeitlin (1742 - 1822), Shklov-born Russian-Jewish rabbinical scholar and philanthropist
- Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (1823 - 1888, Dresden), Kiev-born Russian-Jewish scholar and philanthropist
- Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago
- Leon Zeitlin (1876, Memel - 1967, London), German-Jewish economist, politician (de)
- Leo Zeitlin (1884 - 1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario
- Mark Tseitlin (born 1943, St.Peterburg), a Russian-Israeli chess player
- Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (1924–1966) Russian mathematician and physicist
- Mikhail Tseitlin
- Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn
- Solomon Zeitlin (1892/1886 - 1976), a Lithuanian-Jewish rabbi, historian
- William Zeitlin (1850, Gomel - 1921, Leipzig), Russian-Jewish scholar and bibliographer
- Zvi Zeitlin (1923-2012), Russian-US violinist
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