Cauy
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cauy has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 67 recorded.
Babies named Cauy, 2008
1 in 562,000
Cauy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cauy?
Cauy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 562,000
- 7 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 389,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cauy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cauy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cauys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cauy was born before 2000 — so the typical Cauy is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 82.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 82.9% of all recorded uses (155).
Is Cauy 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
- —
- 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 (67)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 65.4% average annual change
Spellings of Cauy
Cauy is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 32.5% against Cauy's <0.01%.
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 Cauy is used
Across 1910–2025, Cauy was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 267,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 100,000
- 2Arizona1 in —
- 3Iowa1 in —
- 4Kansas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Cauy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cauy around the world
Where Cauy 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.
- Canada1999–2000#1,173in 2000
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Cauy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cauy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cauy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.