Caylee
Caylee was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,200 among girls’ names; 9,769 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,680 Americans named Caylee 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 Caylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Caylee is “a female given name.”
Variant of Kaylee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caylee?
#2,200 among girls’ names, 2025
Caylee fell from #847 in 2015 to #2,200 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,247 babies in 2009, the peak
Caylee peaked in 2009, when 1,247 girls were given it, #264 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,200 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 104 | #1,915 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,637 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,456 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,223 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,121 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 206 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 222 | #1,108 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 269 | #975 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 301 | #916 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 331 | #847 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 419 | #678 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 476 | #597 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 621 | #497 | 0.35 |
| 2011 | 696 | #444 | 0.40 |
| 2010 | 570 | #523 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 1,247 | #264 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 600 | #513 | 0.32 |
| 2007 | 259 | #1,019 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 240 | #1,063 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,061 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,179 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 185 | #1,168 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 201 | #1,060 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 179 | #1,160 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,096 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,070 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 176 | #1,094 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 148 | #1,213 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,296 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,563 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,291 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,315 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,714 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,091 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,857 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,737 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,532 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,608 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caylee, and how old are they?
9,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,769 Americans ever recorded as Caylee. The median Caylee alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 7,698 people named Caylee (7,684 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 738 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,080 |
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).
Where are babies named Caylee born?
The states with the most babies named Caylee are Texas, Florida and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,073 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,735 | 1.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,841 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,009 | 1.6× |
| New York | 5 | #2,154 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,447 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 5 | #937 | 0.5× |
Where Caylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caylee is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1980 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caylee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 280,344 babies since 1880, Caylee is the sixth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 3,377 babies (2.5%), 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 Caylee
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 Caylee and names like it
- Compare Caylee and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCaylee peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Caylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.