Cayleigh
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 162 births
- Debut · girls
- 16 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,297since 1986
Cayleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Cayleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 |
| 2017 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2016 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 |
| 2014 | #1,940 | 103 |
| 2013 | #1,634 | 131 |
| 2012 | #1,782 | 115 |
| 2011 | #1,598 | 135 |
| 2010 | #1,562 | 142 |
| 2009 | #1,441 | 162 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 |
| 2005 | #2,225 | 82 |
| 2004 | #2,326 | 74 |
| 2003 | #3,085 | 48 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,903 | 49 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cayleigh! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 16 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1989, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
See more about Cayleigh
- 209 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #4,878)
- 2,502 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #4,878)
- 2,496 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #4,878)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2009 at #1,441 (162 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,340 girls born in 2009 were named Cayleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all girls named Cayleigh (986) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 51 | #4,724 (1986) | #6,016 |
| 1990s | 249 | #2,651 (1998) | #4,560 |
| 2000s | 757 | #1,441 (2009) | #2,490 |
| 2010s | 986 | #1,562 (2010) | #2,127 |
| 2020s | 254 | #2,376 (2020) | #3,945 |
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.
Cayleigh in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 12,518 of them was named Cayleigh, which outranked 92.1% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).