Meaning not yet researched.
Caley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,457 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,457 in 1994; #11,124 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,124 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #1,457.
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Caley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,457 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 109 (1994).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Caley, making it the 11,124th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,598 places from #15,722 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 girls named Caley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,457, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #5,692 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caley in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1928 with 6 babies. In all, 2,632 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 872 babies named Caley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 108 US girls were named Caley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880), Kaley (13,707 babies since 1880) and Caylee (9,769 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 Caley 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 | 8 | #11,124 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,722 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,764 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,686 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,057 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,816 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,574 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,369 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,692 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,501 | — | — |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,176 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,590 | 5 | #8,594 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,643 | 10 | #4,491 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,793 | 7 | #5,556 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,721 | 11 | #3,912 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,139 | 14 | #3,239 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,083 | 7 | #5,041 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,480 | 10 | #3,913 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,974 | 5 | #6,493 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,176 | 11 | #3,636 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,520 | 14 | #3,115 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,396 | 16 | #2,788 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,606 | 9 | #3,896 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,412 | 10 | #3,638 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,105 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,987 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,570 | 6 | #4,571 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,004 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,480 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,763 |
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).