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Caley

#11,120 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Caley has been given to 2,632 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #11,120 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 109 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Caley, 2025

1 in 414,000

Caley over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Caley over time

In 2025, Caley went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19282025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Caley: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caley means

Caley is a given name.

The naming story behind Caley

Wikidata records Caley as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q98651366, 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, 2,481 girls were recorded with the name Caley between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,454 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,052 in 2020 to #11,120 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,690 in 2015 to #11,120 in 2025.

In the United States, 151 boys were recorded with the name Caley between 1928 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1979; its best national rank was #2,787 in 1979.

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 Caley?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,120
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caley 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caley was born before 1998 — so the typical Caley is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,481
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (867).

Is Caley 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
+4,597
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,068
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,430
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1994 (109)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,454
1994

Spellings of Caley

Caley is not the most common spelling — Sally is, with 10.8% against Caley's 0.13%.

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 Caley is used

Across 1910–2025, Caley was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 150,354 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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. Caley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caley around the world

Where Caley 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
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Scotland
    1986–2004
    #555
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1992–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1985–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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 Caley

People whose public names include Caley, 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.

Caley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,120
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,068
Best rank ever
#1,454
1994
Peak year
1994
109 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,481
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,787
1979
Peak year
1979
16 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Caley

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

CalleyCalieCallaCalliCaliaCallanCalvinCalahRyleyCallyKyleyCaliyahCalleeCalinaCaleahIsleyRipleyEisleyAlleyBayleyAdleyCallenAileyCallyn

Names with a curve like Caley

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

LizetTeannaYesicaKadyKeyonnaKeyonaKadieYanetShaylynKeyanaRebekaAmbria

Sibling names for Caley

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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