Cailean — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cailean

The Social Security Administration has registered 68 babies named Cailean between 1990 and 2014, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cailean currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Cailean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cailean performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Cailean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cailean in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 68 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.