Zeitlin

Zeitlin (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 (1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet
 * Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946), sculptor
 * Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), US filmmaker
 * Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist
 * Froma Zeitlin (born 1933), US classics scholar
 * Harriet Zeitlin (born 1929), American artist
 * Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Polish Yiddish writer
 * Jacob Zeitlin (1902–1987), American bookseller and poet
 * Joshua Zeitlin (1742–1822), Shklov-born Russian-Jewish rabbinical scholar and philanthropist
 * Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (1823–1888), 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
 * Lev Tseitlin (1881-1952), a violinist and teacher
 * Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario
 * Mark Tseitlin (1943–2022), a Russian-Israeli chess grandmaster
 * Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (1924–1966), Russian mathematician and physicist
 * Mikhail Tseitlin (born 1947), Belarusian chess grandmaster
 * Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born 1974), American musician
 * Michail Yulyevich Tseytlin (Михаил Ю́льевич Цейтлин), also as M. Yu. Ceitlin and M. Ju. Zeitlin, a Russian mathematician, who worked on the book Gradshteyn and Ryzhik in the 1960s and early 1970s
 * Solomon Zeitlin (1892–1976), American Jewish historian
 * William Zeitlin (1850–1921), Russian-Jewish scholar and bibliographer
 * Zvi Zeitlin (1922–2012), Russian-US violinist
 * Vladislav Tseytlin (born 1971), Uzbekistani football FIFA referee