Cayleb
Cayleb was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,369 among boys’ names; 1,036 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Cayleb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayleb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayleb?
#8,369 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayleb fell from #2,870 in 2015 to #8,369 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 5.3 per million.
81 babies in 2009, the peak
Cayleb peaked in 2009, when 81 boys were given it, #1,828 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,369 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,340 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,695 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,667 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,596 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,442 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,189 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,005 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,595 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,170 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,870 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,895 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,284 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,073 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,021 | 35.3 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,122 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 81 | #1,828 | 40.8 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,985 | 34.8 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,568 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,586 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,627 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,347 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,932 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,271 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,329 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,606 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,792 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,442 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,992 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,577 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,550 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,926 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,765 | 3.1 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,306 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cayleb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cayleb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cayleb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayleb, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,036 Americans ever recorded as Cayleb. The median Cayleb alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 849 people named Cayleb (3 women and girls, 846 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 334 |
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 417,993 babies since 1880, Cayleb is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 6,411 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Cayleb
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 Cayleb and names like it
- Compare Cayleb and CalebBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCayleb peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayleb since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Cayleb.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cayleb alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.