Meaning not yet researched.
Caeli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,475 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,475 in 2023; #2,081 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caeli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,081 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,475.
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Caeli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,475 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 148 (2023).
In 2025, 90 US girls were named Caeli, making it the 2,081st most common girls’ name of the year, down 413 places from #1,668 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 123 girls named Caeli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,475, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 148. For comparison, it was #4,004 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caeli in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,251 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 551 babies named Caeli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 708 US girls were named Caeli; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,859 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caeli ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #725 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Callie (70,827 babies since 1880), Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880) and Kayli (7,134 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caeli in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #725 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,548 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,594 | #3,090 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,726 | — | — |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,345 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,355 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,794 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,798 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,407 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,628 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,643 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,932 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,535 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,697 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,141 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,751 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,309 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,177 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,315 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,971 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,613 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,097 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,124 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,582 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,806 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).