Caelyn
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 193 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,421since 1987
Caelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Caelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,911 | 38 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,617 | 67 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,025 | 97 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,692 | 124 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,286 | 183 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,251 | 193 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,338 | 173 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,311 | 179 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,366 | 174 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,092 | 97 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,734 | 125 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,597 | 134 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,755 | 112 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,935 | 50 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caelyn! It came in at #8,778, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Caelyn is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more girls named Caelyn in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Caelyn
- 561 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #5,238)
- 1,957 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #5,238)
- 3,213 spots since 2015 (#2,025 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2012 at #1,251 (193 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,125 girls born in 2012 were named Caelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.4% of all girls named Caelyn (1,171) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #8,778 (1987) | #9,813 |
| 1990s | 150 | #3,626 (1997) | #7,669 |
| 2000s | 893 | #1,366 (2009) | #2,331 |
| 2010s | 1,171 | #1,251 (2012) | #2,090 |
| 2020s | 194 | #3,281 (2020) | #4,504 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caelyn in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 248,376 of them was named Caelyn, which outranked 33.8% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,987Yumiko8
- #7,987Zaynab8
- #7,987Zully8
- #8,778Caelyn7
- #8,778Aarti7
- #8,778Aasha7
- #8,778Abilene7
- #9,825Abbigayle6
- #9,825Abibail6
- #9,825Abiola6
Tied with 1,046 names at #8,778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.