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 (1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet
Alexander Zeitlin
Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), US filmmaker
Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist
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
Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario
Mark Tseitlin (born 1943), 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 (1892/1886–1976), Lithuanian-Jewish rabbi, historian
William Zeitlin (1850–1921), Russian-Jewish scholar and bibliographer
Zvi Zeitlin (1923–2012), Russian-US violinist
Vladislav Tseytlin (born 1971) is a Uzbekistani football FIFA referee
