girls:
3.8k births since 1984
#2795 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1984
#4450 (42nd percentile)
The name Cailey is the #4,450 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,816 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 42.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,795 (51.1% percentile) for all time with 3,816 births since 1984.
Cailey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (first recorded for girls in 1984).
For girls, Cailey reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 21.7% percentile (ranked #694) with 102 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 102 births per million (ranked 21.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cailey ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cailey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cailey is pronounced as KAY-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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