Caelen vs Caeli

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Caelen Caeli

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 40 years in which either name was published, Caeli for 28 years and Caelen for 12 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1974–1995 Caeli ahead
• 1996–1997 Caelen ahead
• 1998–1999 Caeli ahead
• 2000 Caelen ahead
• 2001 Caeli ahead
• 2002–2010 Caelen ahead
• 2011–2025 Caeli ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Caelens alive today are over 17; half the Caelis are over 7. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

• Caelen vs Caesar
• Caelen vs Cael
• Caelen vs Caelan
• Caelen vs Caelyn
• Caelen vs Caeden
• Caeli vs Caesar
• Caeli vs Cael
• Caeli vs Caelan