Cailin
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 162 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,713since 1968
Cailin over time
Rank among girls' names. Cailin 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,681 | 65 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,968 | 100 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,621 | 133 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,848 | 115 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #1,642 | 137 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,621 | 137 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,615 | 132 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,466 | 144 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,413 | 147 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,272 | 164 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,282 | 153 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #1,311 | 146 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,288 | 150 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,349 | 131 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,161 | 162 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 143 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,368 | 123 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #1,306 | 127 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,312 | 129 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,882 | 75 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,136 | 62 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,938 | 71 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,096 | 59 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,011 | 59 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,470 | 40 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cailin! It came in at #4,779, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Cailin is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,170 · 1 in 7,303
- Pennsylvania#1,391 · 1 in 10,551
- California#1,849 · 1 in 16,083
- New York#1,962 · 1 in 15,379
- Texas#2,828 · 1 in 26,386
Best ever in a state: #357 in Massachusetts, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,170 | 5 | 1 in 7,303 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,391 | 5 | 1 in 10,551 |
| California | #1,849 | 13 | 1 in 16,083 |
| New York | #1,962 | 6 | 1 in 15,379 |
| Texas | #2,828 | 6 | 1 in 26,386 |
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See more about Cailin
- 4,338 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #11,932)
- 8,386 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #11,932)
- 8,678 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1998 at #1,161 (162 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,907 girls born in 1998 were named Cailin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.4% of all girls named Cailin (1,425) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9 | #4,779 (1968) | #4,779 |
| 1970s | 53 | #5,214 (1978) | #6,427 |
| 1980s | 423 | #1,812 (1987) | #2,616 |
| 1990s | 1,079 | #1,161 (1998) | #1,601 |
| 2000s | 1,425 | #1,272 (2003) | #1,476 |
| 2010s | 604 | #1,621 (2010) | #3,371 |
| 2020s | 120 | #3,546 (2020) | #7,174 |
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.
Cailin in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 21,741 of them was named Cailin, which outranked 88.1% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,286Samirah82
- #2,286Shylah82
- #2,286Siya82
- #2,315Cailin81
- #2,315Arie81
- #2,315Arissa81
- #2,315Candy81
- #2,336Abigael80
- #2,336Amie80
- #2,336Anabell80
Tied with 20 names at #2,315; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.