Girls' name · since 1998
Caely
Caely has 63 recorded births since 1998 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,255 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,477 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 1998
- 2020s
- peak decade
Caely currently ranks #12477 among girls' names in America, with 63 babies recorded since 1998.
Caely has 63 recorded births among girls since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12477 as of the latest data, more common than 28% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2025.
- #32,255 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,477 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 63 born since 1998
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Caely ranks #32,255 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,477 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 63 born since 1998, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,255 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,477 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 1998
- 2020s
- peak decade
Caely's 63 recorded births place it above 55.19% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Caely compares
63 18th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Caely's all-time total is 83% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Caely | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 63 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Caely's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Caely's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1998, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Caely popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Caely by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (28 births, 44% of the file).
2020s was Caely's strongest decade.
28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Caely births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
18 births
- 2010s
2010s
12 births
- 2020s
2020s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 28 births (44% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Caely draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.