Caela
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caela has been given to 462 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Caela, 2018
1 in 391,000
Caela over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Caela?
Caela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 391,000
- 9 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 189,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 270,856 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caela sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 270,856 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caela was born before 2000 — so the typical Caela is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 462
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Caela rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (23)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Caela
Caela is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 23.5% against Caela's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Caela around the world
Where Caela ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2016#4,763in 2016
- Scotland2012–2015#806in 2015
- Northern Ireland2011–2024#337in 2024
- Ireland2007–2025#483in 2025
- France2005–2005#6,184in 2005
- Canada2016–2016#2,808in 2016
- South Australia1974–1974#683in 1974
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Caela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.