Cailey

#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births

Peak · girls
1998 · 194 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,857
since 1984

Cailey over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Cailey has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #1,024, 1998girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#6,83816
2024#5,30024
2023#4,11435
2022#4,47231
2021#4,01436
2020#3,67640
2019#3,08552
2018#3,49744
2017#2,68964
2016#2,22186
2015#2,61968
2014#2,15488
2013#1,929103
2012#1,733119
2011#2,10391
2010#1,500149
2009#1,612139
2008#1,786123
2007#1,537149
2006#1,449154
2005#1,244182
2004#1,195187
2003#1,209176
2002#1,297151
2001#1,084196
2000#1,081191
1999#1,028198
1998#1,024194
1997#1,242143
1996#1,519105
1995#1,57696
1994#1,71486
1993#1,81580
1992#1,96570
1991#2,62046
1990#3,07836
1989#2,98636
1988#4,01522
1987#4,85716
1986#4,53917
1985#5,34813
1984#10,4225
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First appearance
1984

The first year at least five girls were named Cailey! It came in at #10,422, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Cailey
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,538 spots since 2024 (#5,300#6,838)
  • 3,162 spots since 2020 (#3,676#6,838)
  • 4,219 spots since 2015 (#2,619#6,838)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1984
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,024 (194 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,959
  • Highest: 1 in 8,959 girls born in 1999 were named Cailey (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,024 in 1998, was only 1 in 9,108 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 42.7% of all girls named Cailey (1,648) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s109#2,986 (1989)#5,361
1990s1,054#1,024 (1998)#1,758
2000s1,648#1,081 (2000)#1,349
2010s864#1,500 (2010)#2,353
2020s182#3,676 (2020)#4,736

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Cailey in 2008

girls
#1,786
123 births · 1 in 15,373 girls

Top girls' names in 2008

  1. #1Emma18,830
  2. #2Isabella18,629
  3. #3Emily17,448
  4. #4Olivia17,088
  5. #5Ava17,051
  6. #6Madison17,047
  7. #7Sophia16,091
  8. #8Abigail15,088
  9. #9Elizabeth12,027
  10. #10Chloe11,836
  11. #1,786Cailey123
More about 2008

girls

1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,373 of them was named Cailey, which outranked 91.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cailey
  1. #1,774Mari124
  2. #1,774Mariya124
  3. #1,774Maryah124
  4. #1,786Cailey123
  5. #1,786Adina123
  6. #1,786Janell123
  7. #1,789Chandler122
  8. #1,789Cooper122
  9. #1,789Elly122

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. 9,375Dayami#10,129#754
  2. 4,524Allisson#4,944#420
  3. 1,019Alisson#1,804#785
  4. 851Milagros#1,579#728
  5. 807Mareli#1,530#723
Fallers
  1. 391Kelis#968#1,359
  2. 390Joselin#755#1,145
  3. 378Tyra#947#1,325
  4. 363Montana#932#1,295
  5. 337Allyssa#988#1,325

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2008