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Caylee vs Caylen

American parents have registered 9,769 Caylees since 1880, against 1,032 Caylens. Caylee is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caylee against Caylen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caylee Caylen

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 44 years in which either name was published, Caylee for 43 years and Caylen for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Caylee Caylen
Total US births 9,7691,032
Most in one year 1,24760
Babies in 2025 8412
Estimated living today 9,7001,000
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 264th girls3,800th girls
Rank in 2025 2,194th13,208th
First recorded 19801982
Girls / boys 9,769 / 0669 / 363

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 Caylee Caylen
England and Wales 3561

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: Caylee and Caylen.