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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#179 · 1 in 657
- Nebraska#329 · 1 in 1,413
- Idaho#335 · 1 in 1,350
- Minnesota#369 · 1 in 2,131
- Wisconsin#566 · 1 in 3,898
Best ever in a state: #64 in Iowa, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #179 | 23 | 1 in 657 |
| Nebraska | #329 | 7 | 1 in 1,413 |
| Idaho | #335 | 6 | 1 in 1,350 |
| Minnesota | #369 | 13 | 1 in 2,131 |
| Wisconsin | #566 | 7 | 1 in 3,898 |
| Oklahoma | #592 | 6 | 1 in 3,376 |
| Pennsylvania | #601 | 13 | 1 in 4,633 |
| Utah | #673 | 5 | 1 in 4,332 |
| Colorado | #677 | 6 | 1 in 4,525 |
| Ohio | #758 | 10 | 1 in 5,976 |
| Virginia | #846 | 6 | 1 in 6,970 |
| Tennessee | #872 | 5 | 1 in 7,158 |
| Illinois | #876 | 9 | 1 in 7,391 |
| Indiana | #877 | 5 | 1 in 7,135 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 7,185 |
| North Carolina | #1,084 | 5 | 1 in 10,111 |
| Florida | #1,090 | 9 | 1 in 10,218 |
| California | #1,524 | 11 | 1 in 20,954 |
| Texas | #1,562 | 9 | 1 in 19,738 |
| New York | #1,598 | 6 | 1 in 17,384 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 |
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| 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 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 8,948 of them was named Cael, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).