Cailey
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 194 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,857since 1984
Cailey over time
Rank among girls' names. Cailey 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 |
| 2017 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 88 |
| 2013 | #1,929 | 103 |
| 2012 | #1,733 | 119 |
| 2011 | #2,103 | 91 |
| 2010 | #1,500 | 149 |
| 2009 | #1,612 | 139 |
| 2008 | #1,786 | 123 |
| 2007 | #1,537 | 149 |
| 2006 | #1,449 | 154 |
| 2005 | #1,244 | 182 |
| 2004 | #1,195 | 187 |
| 2003 | #1,209 | 176 |
| 2002 | #1,297 | 151 |
| 2001 | #1,084 | 196 |
| 2000 | #1,081 | 191 |
| 1999 | #1,028 | 198 |
| 1998 | #1,024 | 194 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 143 |
| 1996 | #1,519 | 105 |
| 1995 | #1,576 | 96 |
| 1994 | #1,714 | 86 |
| 1993 | #1,815 | 80 |
| 1992 | #1,965 | 70 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cailey! It came in at #10,422, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cailey is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#341 · 1 in 1,700
- Connecticut#462 · 1 in 3,107
- Missouri#555 · 1 in 3,711
- Minnesota#588 · 1 in 4,211
- Oklahoma#591 · 1 in 3,381
Best ever in a state: #341 in Arkansas, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #341 | 7 | 1 in 1,700 |
| Connecticut | #462 | 5 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Missouri | #555 | 8 | 1 in 3,711 |
| Minnesota | #588 | 6 | 1 in 4,211 |
| Oklahoma | #591 | 5 | 1 in 3,381 |
| Louisiana | #616 | 6 | 1 in 3,642 |
| Tennessee | #639 | 7 | 1 in 4,361 |
| Illinois | #753 | 13 | 1 in 5,417 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 9 | 1 in 6,478 |
| Ohio | #788 | 9 | 1 in 6,847 |
| New York | #935 | 14 | 1 in 7,194 |
| Florida | #1,099 | 8 | 1 in 9,285 |
| Georgia | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 8,908 |
| California | #1,185 | 21 | 1 in 10,525 |
| Texas | #1,259 | 13 | 1 in 11,034 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Cailey
- 1,538 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #6,838)
- 3,162 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #6,838)
- 4,219 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 1998 at #1,024 (194 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,959 girls born in 1999 were named Cailey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,024 in 1998, was only 1 in 9,108 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all girls named Cailey (1,648) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 109 | #2,986 (1989) | #5,361 |
| 1990s | 1,054 | #1,024 (1998) | #1,758 |
| 2000s | 1,648 | #1,081 (2000) | #1,349 |
| 2010s | 864 | #1,500 (2010) | #2,353 |
| 2020s | 182 | #3,676 (2020) | #4,736 |
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.
Cailey in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 9,108 of them was named Cailey, which outranked 93.8% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).