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Cailey

#6,893 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cailey has been given to 3,857 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #6,893 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Cailey, 2025

1 in 207,000

Cailey over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cailey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cailey means

Cailey is a given name.

The naming story behind Cailey

Wikidata records Cailey as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q105077519, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,857 girls were recorded with the name Cailey between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,023 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,695 in 2020 to #6,893 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,626 in 2015 to #6,893 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 Cailey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,893
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cailey 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cailey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caileys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cailey was born before 2004 — so the typical Cailey is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,857
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (1,648).

Is Cailey 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
−1,568
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,198
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,267
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.24×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.1%
Peak was 1999 (198)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,023
1998

Spellings of Cailey

Cailey is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 13.8% against Cailey's 0.29%.

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 Cailey is used

Across 1910–2025, Cailey was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 71,776 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 100,000

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. Cailey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cailey around the world

Where Cailey 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
    1998–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    2004–2006
    #722
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cailey

People whose public names include Cailey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cailey in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cailey. Linked forms have their own page here.

Calie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cailey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,893
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,198
Best rank ever
#1,023
1998
Peak year
1999
198 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,857
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Cailey

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

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Names with a curve like Cailey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cailey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShaelynBaylieDeasiaMakaelaKyaraAlexiKaylahEmaleeAbrianaAlliyahJoselineSavana

Sibling names for Cailey

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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