Meaning not yet researched.
Cayley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,994 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,994 in 1998; #12,169 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cayley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,169 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,994.
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Cayley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,994 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 75 (1998).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Cayley, making it the 12,169th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,578 places from #15,747 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Cayley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,994, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #5,872 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cayley in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 1,213 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 482 babies named Cayley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US girls were named Cayley; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayley (8,586 babies since 1880), Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880) and Kaley (13,707 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 Cayley 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 | 7 | #12,169 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,747 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,403 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,413 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,329 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,705 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,248 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,472 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,934 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,491 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,872 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,383 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,685 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,616 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,431 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,178 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,885 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,204 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,113 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,674 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,916 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,304 | — | — |
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).