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Cayleigh

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Cayleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
290.00% of girls
Peak year
2009162 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1986
2,270people given the name
Babies named Cayleigh, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,270 girls have been named Cayleigh in the United States since 1986, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 162 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 43%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Cayleigh
1980s51
1990s249
2000s757
2010s986
2020s227

In 2009, its biggest year

Cayleigh was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Cayleigh

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.