Caylah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Caylah

The Social Security Administration has registered 405 babies named Caylah between 1989 and 2018, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caylah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caylah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 193 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Caylah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Caylah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caylah 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 405 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.