girls:
3.7k births since 1968
#2845 (50th percentile)
boys:
30 births since 1996
#4556 (1st percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1968
#4500 (42nd percentile)
The name Cailin is the #4,500 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,722 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 41.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,845 (50.2% percentile) for all time with 3,692 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,556 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1996.
Cailin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Cailin is available in 51 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (51 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Cailin has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cailin reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #717) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 84 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cailin ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cailin reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #793) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cailin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cailin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Cailin is pronounced as KAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-lihn, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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