Cayley
Cayley is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Cayley
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Cayley is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Cayley
The earliest SSA record of Cayley as a baby girl name dates back to 1984, when 6 babies received it. 1998 was its biggest year on record, with 75 newborns named Cayley — #1,992 in the national rankings. About 40% of every Cayley on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Cayley last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Cayley
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Cayley. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Cayley
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About the name Cayley
Cayley is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1984 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Cayley's peak popularity came in 1998 when it ranked #1,992. Use the chart and map above to compare Cayley's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.