Cailyn
#3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 401 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,549since 1979
Cailyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Cailyn has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,712 | 40 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,002 | 55 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,184 | 87 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,337 | 177 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,326 | 178 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,111 | 219 | — | |
| 2012 | #985 | 256 | — | |
| 2011 | #868 | 301 | — | |
| 2010 | #835 | 322 | — | |
| 2009 | #724 | 401 | — | |
| 2008 | #742 | 399 | — | |
| 2007 | #974 | 276 | — | |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,125 | 209 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,107 | 206 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,160 | 186 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,189 | 172 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,217 | 163 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,243 | 151 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,183 | 157 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,334 | 129 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,625 | 94 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,841 | 77 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,380 | 53 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,640 | 44 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,893 | 25 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cailyn! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cailyn is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#568 · 1 in 4,832
- California#2,520 · 1 in 34,643
Best ever in a state: #314 in Mississippi, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #568 | 7 | 1 in 4,832 |
| California | #2,520 | 7 | 1 in 34,643 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cailyn
- 435 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #3,712)
- 1,244 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #3,712)
- 2,375 spots since 2015 (#1,337 → #3,712)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 2006 (#1,125 → #869)
- Biggest drop: 126 spots in 2013 (#985 → #1,111)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2009 at #724 (401 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2006–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,581 girls born in 2009 were named Cailyn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.1% of all girls named Cailyn (2,445) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 120 | #3,483 (1988) | #5,608 |
| 1990s | 857 | #1,183 (1998) | #2,111 |
| 2000s | 2,445 | #724 (2009) | #1,058 |
| 2010s | 1,791 | #835 (2010) | #1,555 |
| 2020s | 331 | #2,468 (2020) | #3,035 |
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.
Cailyn in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 23,192 of them was named Cailyn, which outranked 88.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,827Shantelle78
- #1,827Sirena78
- #1,827Stormi78
- #1,841Cailyn77
- #1,841Celene77
- #1,841Desarae77
- #1,841Jaelyn77
- #1,862Adelaide76
- #1,862Adelina76
- #1,862Alishia76
Tied with 20 names at #1,841; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.