Meaning not yet researched.
Cayleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,441 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,441 in 2009; #4,900 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cayleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,900 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,441.
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Cayleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,441 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 162 (2009).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Cayleigh, making it the 4,900th most common girls’ name of the year, down 210 places from #4,690 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 29 girls named Cayleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,441, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 162. For comparison, it was #2,388 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayleigh in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 16 babies. In all, 2,297 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 986 babies named Cayleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 537 US girls were named Cayleigh; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 103. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880), Kaleigh (16,250 babies since 1880), Caleigh (5,768 babies since 1880) and Kaileigh (2,774 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 Cayleigh 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 | 27 | #4,900 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,690 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 2009 | 162 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,322 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,546 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,881 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,309 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,598 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,033 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,872 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,758 | — | — |
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).