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 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#748 · 1 in 5,004
- Colorado#825 · 1 in 4,968
- Virginia#862 · 1 in 5,944
- North Carolina#900 · 1 in 6,206
- Florida#1,727 · 1 in 15,404
Best ever in a state: #397 in Colorado, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #748 | 6 | 1 in 5,004 |
| Colorado | #825 | 5 | 1 in 4,968 |
| Virginia | #862 | 6 | 1 in 5,944 |
| North Carolina | #900 | 7 | 1 in 6,206 |
| Florida | #1,727 | 5 | 1 in 15,404 |
| Texas | #1,860 | 9 | 1 in 17,327 |
| California | #2,391 | 8 | 1 in 27,841 |
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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 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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 21,140 of them was named Caley, which outranked 88.8% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,018Lailah86
- #2,018Samiyah86
- #2,018Veronika86
- #2,028Caley85
- #2,028Ailyn85
- #2,028Alisia85
- #2,028Brynne85
- #2,046Abbi84
- #2,046Alexander84
- #2,046Anasia84
Tied with 17 names at #2,028; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.