girls:
17 births since 2002
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
68 births since 1990
#4518 (1st percentile)
overall:
85 births since 1990
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Cailean is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,518 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2002.
Cailean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Cailean is available in 12 out of the 25 years between 1990 and 2014 (10 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cailean has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2014, 100.0% of babies named Cailean were boys.
For boys, Cailean reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #794) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Cailean reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #893) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cailean".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Cailean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.6% confident that Cailean is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-lee-uhn, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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