Cael
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 222 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,732since 1989
Cael over time
Rank among boys' names. Cael has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,942 | 79 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,952 | 42 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,819 | 44 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,505 | 51 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,364 | 57 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,994 | 73 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,032 | 69 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,694 | 92 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,247 | 145 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,102 | 173 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,052 | 182 | |
| 2012 | — | #949 | 212 | |
| 2011 | — | #805 | 272 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #840 | 252 |
| 2009 | — | #816 | 270 | |
| 2008 | — | #832 | 263 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #925 | 214 |
| 2006 | — | #919 | 206 | |
| 2005 | — | #854 | 215 | |
| 2004 | — | #957 | 175 | |
| 2003 | — | #933 | 176 | |
| 2002 | — | #777 | 222 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,960 | 55 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,805 | 32 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cael! It came in at #5,615, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cael is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#151 · 1 in 588
- Idaho#335 · 1 in 1,400
- Nebraska#398 · 1 in 1,970
- Pennsylvania#440 · 1 in 3,210
- Utah#447 · 1 in 2,452
Best ever in a state: #64 in Iowa, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #151 | 26 | 1 in 588 |
| Idaho | #335 | 6 | 1 in 1,400 |
| Nebraska | #398 | 5 | 1 in 1,970 |
| Pennsylvania | #440 | 19 | 1 in 3,210 |
| Utah | #447 | 9 | 1 in 2,452 |
| Minnesota | #483 | 9 | 1 in 3,079 |
| Oklahoma | #523 | 7 | 1 in 2,939 |
| Washington | #557 | 10 | 1 in 3,558 |
| Virginia | #620 | 9 | 1 in 4,618 |
| Missouri | #635 | 7 | 1 in 4,667 |
| Illinois | #734 | 13 | 1 in 5,371 |
| Tennessee | #757 | 6 | 1 in 5,859 |
| Arizona | #780 | 6 | 1 in 6,214 |
| Michigan | #785 | 8 | 1 in 6,024 |
| Ohio | #828 | 8 | 1 in 7,566 |
| California | #961 | 22 | 1 in 10,626 |
| Texas | #1,084 | 16 | 1 in 11,164 |
| Georgia | #1,089 | 6 | 1 in 9,315 |
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See more about Cael
- 403 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #1,942)
- 563 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #1,942)
- 695 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #1,942)
- Biggest jump: 1,183 spots in 2002 (#1,960 → #777)
- Biggest drop: 156 spots in 2003 (#777 → #933)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2002 at #777 (222 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2002–2012
- Highest: 1 in 6,983 boys born in 2011 were named Cael (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #777 in 2002, was only 1 in 8,746 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 49.0% of all boys named Cael (1,828) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 8 | #5,615 (1989) | #5,615 |
| 1990s | 55 | #3,480 (1999) | #6,990 |
| 2000s | 1,828 | #777 (2002) | #1,178 |
| 2010s | 1,527 | #805 (2011) | #1,408 |
| 2020s | 314 | #1,942 (2025) | #2,619 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cael in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 355,519 of them was named Cael, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 7,614 of them was named Cael, which outranked 94.1% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.