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Cailyn

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Cailyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 48 births. Its best rank was 723rd, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
480.00% of girls
Peak year
2009401 births
Best rank
#723in 2009
Since 1979
5,509people given the name
Babies named Cailyn, by year of birthgirls
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

5,509 girls have been named Cailyn in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 401 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 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 44%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Cailyn
1970s5
1980s120
1990s857
2000s2,445
2010s1,791
2020s291

In 2009, its biggest year

Cailyn was the 723rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Cailyn

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.