Meaning not yet researched.
Cayleb: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,829 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,829 in 2009; #8,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cayleb in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,373 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,829.
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Cayleb: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,829 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 81 (2009).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Cayleb, making it the 8,373rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,028 places from #7,345 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 11 boys named Cayleb in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,829, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #2,871 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayleb in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 7 babies. In all, 1,036 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 443 babies named Cayleb.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 200 US boys were named Cayleb; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Caleb (325,003 babies since 1880), Kaleb (86,851 babies since 1880) and Kayleb (2,432 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 Cayleb 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,373 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,345 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,700 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,671 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,601 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,446 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,193 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,009 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,599 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,171 |
| 2015 | — | — | 41 | #2,871 |
| 2014 | — | — | 40 | #2,897 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,285 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,074 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,022 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,123 |
| 2009 | — | — | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2008 | — | — | 71 | #1,986 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,568 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,587 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,631 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,351 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,936 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,275 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,334 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,613 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,798 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,446 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #4,998 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,584 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,556 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,932 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,771 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,313 |
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).