Cayce — #12337 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Cayce

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,141 babies named Cayce between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cayce currently holds the #12337 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 55 babies received it in a single year. Cayce is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 593 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cayce performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 382 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Cayce shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Cayce in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cayce 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 1,141 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.