Cayce
Cayce was last recorded in 2025, when 13 babies were given it; 1,747 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Cayce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,415, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1987, the peak
Cayce peaked in 1987, when 70 babies were given it (55 girls, #2,028 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 13 | #6,517 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,415 | 16 | #5,699 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,480 | 14 | #6,274 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,827 | 17 | #5,472 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,463 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 12 | #6,696 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,322 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 12 | #6,765 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,872 | 7 | #9,866 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 15 | #5,827 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #8,877 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,286 | 11 | #7,147 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,200 | 6 | #10,962 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,771 | 10 | #7,637 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,639 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,600 | 8 | #8,930 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,507 | 8 | #9,115 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,199 | 17 | #5,282 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,877 | 6 | #11,136 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,918 | 8 | #8,852 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,209 | 5 | #11,724 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,464 | 12 | #6,193 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,277 | 14 | #5,306 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,505 | 14 | #5,166 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,229 | 10 | #6,523 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,533 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,552 | 16 | #4,372 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,358 | 12 | #5,188 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,144 | 9 | #6,160 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,091 | 14 | #4,415 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,234 | 9 | #5,988 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,908 | 18 | #3,607 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,786 | 13 | #4,472 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,150 | 13 | #4,348 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,309 | 17 | #3,476 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,858 | 9 | #5,434 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,615 | 12 | #4,301 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,878 | 11 | #4,193 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,028 | 15 | #3,216 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,687 | 14 | #3,287 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,286 | 7 | #5,219 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,686 | 8 | #4,617 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,916 | 13 | #3,264 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,538 | 10 | #4,000 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,788 | 17 | #2,688 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,611 | 10 | #3,884 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,084 | 8 | #4,464 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,242 | 8 | #4,206 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,500 | 9 | #3,882 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,200 | 10 | #3,502 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,689 | 12 | #3,097 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,931 | 7 | #4,243 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,391 | 5 | #5,204 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,651 | 8 | #3,670 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,844 | 7 | #4,025 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,605 | 7 | #3,900 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 8 | #3,350 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,700 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,685 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,729 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cayce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,747 Americans recorded as Cayce, 65% are girls and 35% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Cayce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayce, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,747 Americans ever recorded as Cayce. The median Cayce alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,528 people named Cayce (1,042 women and girls, 486 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 329 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 727 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 197 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,696 babies since 1880, Cayce is the fourth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 310 babies (4.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Cayce
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 Cayce and names like it
- Compare Cayce and KayeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCayce peaked in 1987.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayce since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Cayce.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cayce alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.