Meaning not yet researched.
Cayce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,690 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,690 in 1981; #6,521 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cayce in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,521 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #2,690.
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Cayce: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,690 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 18 (1994).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Cayce, making it the 6,521st most common boys’ name of the year, down 818 places from #5,703 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 16 boys named Cayce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,690, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 18, in 1994. For comparison, it was #8,882 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Cayce in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,029, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayce in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 1,747 US babies have been given the name, 65% of them girls and 35% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 499 babies named Cayce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US boys were named Cayce; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayce (6,540 babies since 1880), Kace (3,219 babies since 1880) and Cache (1,480 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 Cayce 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 | — | — | 13 | #6,521 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,420 | 16 | #5,703 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,485 | 14 | #6,279 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,832 | 17 | #5,476 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,469 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,700 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,327 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,769 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,876 | 7 | #9,871 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,831 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #8,882 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,291 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,205 | 6 | #10,968 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,778 | 10 | #7,643 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,647 | 8 | #8,890 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,603 | 8 | #8,936 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,511 | 8 | #9,120 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,203 | 17 | #5,287 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,881 | 6 | #11,142 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,920 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,214 | 5 | #11,732 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,469 | 12 | #6,199 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,282 | 14 | #5,313 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,511 | 14 | #5,173 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,233 | 10 | #6,530 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,540 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,558 | 16 | #4,377 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,361 | 12 | #5,194 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,147 | 9 | #6,166 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,096 | 14 | #4,421 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,239 | 9 | #5,994 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,913 | 18 | #3,613 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,791 | 13 | #4,478 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,155 | 13 | #4,355 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,315 | 17 | #3,483 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,863 | 9 | #5,441 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,620 | 12 | #4,307 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,883 | 11 | #4,198 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,029 | 15 | #3,220 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,688 | 14 | #3,290 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,287 | 7 | #5,224 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,687 | 8 | #4,620 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,917 | 13 | #3,265 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,538 | 10 | #4,002 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,788 | 17 | #2,690 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,611 | 10 | #3,885 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,084 | 8 | #4,466 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,242 | 8 | #4,208 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,501 | 9 | #3,884 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,201 | 10 | #3,504 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,689 | 12 | #3,099 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,931 | 7 | #4,245 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,392 | 5 | #5,206 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,653 | 8 | #3,672 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,846 | 7 | #4,027 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,606 | 7 | #3,902 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,351 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,686 | — | — |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,731 |
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).