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Cailin

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Cailin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
140.00% of girls
Peak year
2003164 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1968
3,706people given the name
Babies named Cailin, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,706 girls have been named Cailin in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 164 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 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 38%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Cailin
1960s9
1970s53
1980s423
1990s1,079
2000s1,425
2010s604
2020s113

In 2003, its biggest year

Cailin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2003 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Hannah and Olivia. See all of 2003.

Names that rose and fell with Cailin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.