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Caileigh

#9,572 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kayleigh

Caileigh has been given to 1,177 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #9,572 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Caileigh, 2025

1 in 332,000

Caileigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caileigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kayleigh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caileigh means

Caileigh is a variant of Kayleigh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kayleigh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,177 girls were recorded with the name Caileigh between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,849 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,895 in 2020 to #9,572 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,396 in 2015 to #9,572 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Caileigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,572
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caileigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caileigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caileighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caileigh was born before 2008 — so the typical Caileigh is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,177
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2000s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (437).

Is Caileigh 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
−1,529
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,677
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,176
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 2008 (62)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,849
2001

Spellings of Caileigh

Caileigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 20.8% against Caileigh's 0.71%.

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 Caileigh is used

Across 1910–2025, Caileigh was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 555,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Caileigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caileigh around the world

Where Caileigh 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 & Wales
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2001–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Caileigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,677
Best rank ever
#2,849
2001
Peak year
2008
62 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,177
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Caileigh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CaidenceCailynnAvaleighEmaleighFinleighEmileighCaitlynnBrileighKaeleighZayleighJayleighAubreighMayleighAnsleighMaeleighAnaleighAdaleighHaileighKynleighLynleighSkyleighKalleighRhyleighKinleigh

Sibling names for Caileigh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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