Caeley
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Caeley has been given to 423 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2000, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Caeley, 2014
1 in 412,000
Caeley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Caeley?
Caeley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 412,000
- 9 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 198,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 285,486 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Caeley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 285,486 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caeley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Caeleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Caeley was born before 2002 — so the typical Caeley is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 63.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 423
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 63.8% of all recorded uses (270).
Is Caeley 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (46)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Caeley
Caeley is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 18.3% against Caeley's 0.04%.
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.
Where Caeley is used
Across 1910–2025, Caeley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,681,595 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Ohio1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caeley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Caeley around the world
Where Caeley 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.
- Canada1997–2000#2,195in 2000
- South Australia2007–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Caeley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Caeley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Caeley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.