Meaning not yet researched.
Cailey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,024 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,024 in 1998; #6,895 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cailey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,895 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,024.
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Cailey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,024 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 198 (1999).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Cailey, making it the 6,895th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,567 places from #5,328 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 24 girls named Cailey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,024, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 198, in 1999. For comparison, it was #2,626 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cailey in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 5 babies. In all, 3,857 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,648 babies named Cailey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 428 US girls were named Cailey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Calie (1,546 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880), Kaley (13,707 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 Cailey 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 | 16 | #6,895 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,328 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,128 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,696 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2009 | 139 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 2006 | 154 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2005 | 182 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2004 | 187 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 2003 | 176 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2002 | 151 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 2001 | 196 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1999 | 198 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1998 | 194 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1997 | 143 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,024 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,564 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,399 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,622 | — | — |
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).