Cayle
Cayle was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 383 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,516, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2007, the peak
Cayle peaked in 2007, when 22 babies were given it (11 boys, #7,170 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,516 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,088 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,619 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,013 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,649 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,336 | 11 | #7,148 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,645 | 12 | #6,867 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,777 | 11 | #7,278 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,265 | 11 | #7,170 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,745 | 10 | #7,514 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 12 | #9,007 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,817 | 7 | #9,085 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,227 | 7 | #8,797 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #7,751 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,436 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,466 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,890 | 6 | #8,860 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,334 | 5 | #9,835 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,696 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,768 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,782 | 5 | #9,058 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,787 | 6 | #7,917 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,025 | 11 | #5,049 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,003 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 13 | #4,193 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,845 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,562 | 10 | #4,283 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,912 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,672 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,673 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,603 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,387 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,930 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 9 | #3,883 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,878 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,244 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,511 |
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 Cayle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 383 Americans recorded as Cayle, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cayle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayle, and how old are they?
An estimated 372 Americans named Cayle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 486 people named Cayle (218 women and girls, 268 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 16,394 babies since 1880, Cayle is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 58 babies recorded by SSA was a Cayle (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Cayle
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 Cayle and names like it
- Compare Cayle and CaleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCayle peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Cayle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cayle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.