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Caydence vs Cayleb

American parents have registered 3,898 Caydences since 1880, against 1,036 Caylebs. Caydence is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caydence against Cayleb, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caydence Cayleb

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 34 years in which either name was published, Caydence for 23 years and Cayleb for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Caydence Cayleb
Total US births 3,8981,036
Most in one year 31181
Babies in 2025 319
Estimated living today 3,9001,000
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 904th girls1,825th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th8,243rd
First recorded 20021989
Girls / boys 3,588 / 3100 / 1,036

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Caydence Cayleb
England and Wales 3282

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caydence and Cayleb.