Cayce
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cayce has been given to 1,747 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1987, with 55 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% girls, 35% boys all-time.
Babies named Cayce, 2024
1 in 478,000
Cayce 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Cayce over time
In 2025, Cayce went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Cayce?
Cayce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cayce sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cayces were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayce was born before 1989 — so the typical Cayce is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 33.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,141
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (382).
Is Cayce 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 1987 (55)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.0% average annual change
Spellings of Cayce
Cayce is not the most common spelling — Joyce is, with 57.1% against Cayce'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 Cayce is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Cayce was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 222,568 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 2South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Kentucky1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 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. Cayce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Cayce is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Cayce was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Cayce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cayce around the world
Where Cayce 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 & Wales2007–2007#4,294in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cayce by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Cayce
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cayce
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.