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Caley

Caley is a girl's name that peaked in 1994, when it was the 1,454th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 2,600 Caleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Caley boys named Caley

By the numbers

Total US births
2,632
Estimated living today
2,600
Median age today
28
Peak year
1994
Best rank
1,454th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1928
Girls / boys
2,481 / 151

How old the living Caleys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,632 babies given the name since 1928, about 2,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.

Where Caley is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Caley is most concentrated in Colorado (12.0×), Florida (2.9×), Texas (2.2×), California (1.8×).

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

Names of 1994

The most popular girls’ names the year Caley peaked:

All the names of 1994

Caley elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Caley 42 2,226th
Scotland girls Caley 28 485th
England and Wales boys Caley 5 2,074th
Scotland boys Caley 3 595th

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.

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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.