Cailen is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
At least in the US, the name Cailen is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Cailen each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Cailen will meet someone with the same name. So, Cailen is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Cailen. Kids named Cailen have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 8,298 Cailen ranked higher than ever in 2009. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Cailen has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their children Cailen only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cailen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Cailen continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Cailen that year, ranking #16,207 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Cailen, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for first names. This is because 5.7% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With six letters, the name Cailen is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.7% of all first names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters.
If your name is Cailen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cailen, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cailen
Cailen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
I
L
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
I
L
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cailen sounds like this:
