Cailey
Cailey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1999198 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1984
- 3,841people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,841 girls have been named Cailey in the United States since 1984, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 198 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Cailey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Cailey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaylahpeak 1999
- Mackenzipeak 2003
- Nikaylapeak 1999
- Kaileypeak 2004
- Shaelynpeak 2000
- Makaelapeak 1998
- Klaudiapeak 2004
- Alexiepeak 2003
Other spellings in the data
- Kaylee139,199 ever
- Kailey27,089 ever
- Kaylie21,950 ever
- Kailee12,823 ever
- Caylee9,682 ever
- Kayley8,541 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.