Meaning not yet researched.
Cailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,021 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,021 in 1999; #4,471 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cailee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,471 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #2,021.
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Cailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,021 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 77 (1999).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Cailee, making it the 4,471st most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #4,494 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 31 girls named Cailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,021, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #3,034 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cailee in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 7 babies. In all, 1,792 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 606 babies named Cailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 387 US girls were named Cailee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Callie (70,827 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880) and Kailee (12,953 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 Cailee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,471 | — | — |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,589 | — | — |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,642 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,393 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,648 | — | — |
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).