Cayman
Cayman was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,068 among boys’ names; 1,271 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Cayman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cayman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cayman?
#5,068 among boys’ names, 2025
Cayman fell from #4,094 in 2015 to #5,068 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 11.1 per million.
82 babies in 2006, the peak
Cayman peaked in 2006, when 82 babies were given it (55 boys, #2,289 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 19 | #5,068 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,273 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #6,968 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 20 | #4,874 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,821 | 33 | #3,432 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 19 | #4,881 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 33 | #3,431 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 27 | #3,901 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 23 | #4,344 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 20 | #4,806 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 25 | #4,094 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,953 | 22 | #4,410 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 26 | #3,880 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,349 | 23 | #4,272 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,389 | 31 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,918 | 30 | #3,547 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,508 | 31 | #3,484 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,818 | 34 | #3,295 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,612 | 45 | #2,690 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,113 | 55 | #2,289 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,426 | 40 | #2,710 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,855 | 41 | #2,603 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,808 | 29 | #3,202 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,186 | 36 | #2,641 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,876 | 36 | #2,622 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,237 | 42 | #2,299 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,806 | 23 | #3,385 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,438 | 33 | #2,560 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,854 | 31 | #2,549 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,770 | 32 | #2,443 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,130 | 34 | #2,298 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,687 | 31 | #2,445 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 22 | #3,054 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,652 | 11 | #4,919 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,397 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 11 | #4,704 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,080 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,673 |
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 Cayman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,271 Americans recorded as Cayman, 20% are girls and 80% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 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 Cayman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cayman, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,271 Americans ever recorded as Cayman. The median Cayman alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,119 people named Cayman (274 women and girls, 845 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 188 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 755 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 307 |
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 2,339 babies since 1880, Cayman is the most given (54% of them).
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 Cayman
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 Cayman and names like it
- Compare Cayman and CaymenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCayman peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cayman since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Cayman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cayman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.