Caley
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #8,435
Given to girls 94.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,481since 1973
Caley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,030 | 92 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,028 | 85 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,096 | 79 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,649 | 107 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,707 | 96 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,667 | 96 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,927 | 75 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,915 | 75 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,880 | 74 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,454 | 109 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,611 | 94 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,588 | 97 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #1,779 | 80 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,938 | 71 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #1,792 | 65 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #1,717 | 68 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #2,475 | 37 | #3,884 | 10 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #3,606 | 10 |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caley! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Caley is popular in 1973
No state had 5 or more girls named Caley in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Caley
- 4,376 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,917)
- 1,964 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,917)
- 5,264 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1994 at #1,454 (109 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,383 girls born in 1994 were named Caley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.9% of all girls named Caley (867) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1979, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 46 | #5,563 (1978) | #7,087 |
| 1980s | 476 | #1,479 (1989) | #2,788 |
| 1990s | 867 | #1,454 (1994) | #1,747 |
| 2000s | 799 | #1,649 (2000) | #2,390 |
| 2010s | 253 | #3,916 (2011) | #5,628 |
| 2020s | 40 | #8,953 (2020) | #11,637 |
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.
Caley in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 291,642 of them was named Caley, which outranked 14.1% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,387 names at #8,423; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 259,763 of them was named Caley, which outranked 23.3% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,054Zakary7
- #4,054Zalmen7
- #4,054Zubin7
- #4,505Caley6
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
- #5,101Abdalla5
- #5,101Abiel5
- #5,101Abrahm5
Tied with 595 names at #4,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.