How Many People Are Named Cayley?
people named Cayley are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 285,296 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,213 babies named Cayley in Social Security records from 1984 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
75 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of KAYLEE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cayley in English. Counting Cayley and these spellings together, about 274,099 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cayley in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cayley alive today is about 23 years old, and 79% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 29 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cayley first appears in the records in 1984 and was given most often in 1998, to 75 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1984 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cayley has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,991, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #12,165.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #12,165 |
| Best rank | #1,991 (1998) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,202 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cayley alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cayley were born in California than in any other state: about 70 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cayley was given about 2.6 times as often in California.
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