Cayce
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 65.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 55 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,141since 1961
Cayce 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,620 | 12 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,215 | 9 | |
| 2018 | — | #6,703 | 12 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | — | #5,789 | 15 | |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #3,301 | 33 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #2,618 | 43 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,024 | 55 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #2,910 | 29 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | #2,680 | 17 |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #2,237 | 41 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Cayce! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Cayce is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#485 · 1 in 4,257
- Tennessee#581 · 1 in 4,965
- North Carolina#743 · 1 in 6,781
Best ever in a state: #362 in Tennessee, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #485 | 5 | 1 in 4,257 |
| Tennessee | #581 | 6 | 1 in 4,965 |
| North Carolina | #743 | 6 | 1 in 6,781 |
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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 Cayce
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1987 at #2,024 (55 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,611 girls born in 1987 were named Cayce (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all girls named Cayce (382) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #5,642 (1968) | #6,105 |
| 1970s | 211 | #2,237 (1978) | #3,690 |
| 1980s | 382 | #2,024 (1987) | #2,597 |
| 1990s | 284 | #2,850 (1990) | #4,021 |
| 2000s | 169 | #4,209 (2001) | #7,102 |
| 2010s | 57 | #7,513 (2010) | #11,181 |
| 2020s | 26 | #9,680 (2022) | #10,718 |
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.
Cayce in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 42,873 of them was named Cayce, which outranked 82.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,572Teressa44
- #2,572Trang44
- #2,572Yanet44
- #2,618Cayce43
- #2,618Abigayle43
- #2,618Carleen43
- #2,618Celine43
- #2,658Adreanna42
- #2,658Alixandra42
- #2,658Allyse42
Tied with 39 names at #2,618; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 166,744 of them was named Cayce, which outranked 53.7% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,017Wynn13
- #4,017Zan13
- #4,017Zebulun13
- #4,271Cayce12
- #4,271Adair12
- #4,271Aeron12
- #4,271Ahron12
- #4,527Aaren11
- #4,527Abbas11
- #4,527Abdon11
Tied with 255 names at #4,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.