Caress — girls' name

What the Data Says About Caress

The Social Security Administration has registered 209 babies named Caress between 1978 and 2000, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caress currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 69 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caress performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Caress shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Caress in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caress 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 209 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.