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Cailey

Cailey is a girl's name that peaked in 1999, when it was the 1,028th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 3,800 Caileys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cailey

By the numbers

Total US births
3,857
Estimated living today
3,800
Median age today
21
Peak year
1999
Best rank
1,028th
Rank in 2025
6,838th
First recorded
1984

How old the living Caileys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,857 babies given the name since 1984, about 3,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Caileys

People named Cailey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Cailey is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cailey is most concentrated in Florida (2.3×), Texas (2.1×), California (1.8×), Tennessee (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1999

The most popular girls’ names the year Cailey peaked:

All the names of 1999

Cailey elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Cailey 57 2,112th
Scotland girls Cailey 6 663rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Cailey against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.