Caley
Caley was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,120 among girls’ names; 2,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,570 Americans named Caley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caley?
#11,120 among girls’ names, 2025
Caley fell from #5,690 in 2015 to #11,120 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 5.0 per million.
109 babies in 1994, the peak
Caley peaked in 1994, when 109 girls were given it, #1,454 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,120 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,717 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,759 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,681 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,052 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,812 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,570 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,365 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,652 | 13.0 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,690 | 12.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 24 | #5,499 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,174 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,856 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,928 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,122 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,953 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,437 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,489 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,560 | 37.3 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,029 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,912 | 53.4 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,786 | 57.5 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,028 | 47.3 |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,097 | 43.9 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,649 | 58.9 |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,707 | 54.1 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,668 | 54.3 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,927 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,915 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,880 | 42.1 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,454 | 61.0 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,611 | 52.0 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,587 | 52.6 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,776 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,937 | 37.4 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,479 | 53.2 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,642 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,792 | 37.4 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,720 | 39.6 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,138 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,082 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,479 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,972 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,175 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,520 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,394 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,605 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,410 | 5.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,103 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,985 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,568 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,632 Americans recorded as Caley, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caley, and how old are they?
2,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,632 Americans ever recorded as Caley. The median Caley alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,485 people named Caley (2,289 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 125 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 189 |
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 Caley born?
The states with the most babies named Caley are California, Texas and Colorado, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 138 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 112 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 60 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Caley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caley is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1928 it was given 2.6 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 Caley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Caley?
Caley is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 2,632 Caley and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 161,166 babies since 1880, Caley is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,800 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Caley
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 Caley and names like it
- Compare Caley and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCaley peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caley since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Caley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.