Caeli
Caeli was given to 90 girls in 2025, #2,081 among girls’ names; 1,251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Caeli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caeli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caeli?
#2,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Caeli rose from #4,003 in 2015 to #2,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 56.0 per million.
148 babies in 2023, the peak
Caeli peaked in 2023, when 148 girls were given it, #1,475 among girls’ names. The 90 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #2,081 | 56.0 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,668 | 75.9 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,475 | 92.2 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,193 | 52.4 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,966 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,233 | 29.7 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,096 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,579 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,080 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,865 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,003 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,283 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,672 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,725 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,590 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,341 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,352 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,791 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,794 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,405 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,623 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,596 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,638 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,928 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,870 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,528 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,691 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,163 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,136 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,746 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,304 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,171 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,309 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,964 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,607 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,513 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,092 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,119 | 2.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,580 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,804 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caeli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caeli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caeli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caeli, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,251 Americans ever recorded as Caeli. The median Caeli alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 654 people named Caeli (642 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 706 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 80 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 345 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 804 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caeli born?
The states with the most babies named Caeli are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,548 | 1.3× |
| California | 14 | #1,594 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #725 | 0.3× |
Where Caeli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caeli is most over-represented in Texas: since 1974 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caeli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 158,923 babies since 1880, Caeli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 3,497 babies (2.6%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caeli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caeli and names like it
- Compare Caeli and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCaeli peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caeli since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Caeli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Caeli alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.