Cailey is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cailey is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cailey. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cailey is #2,352 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cailey.
Cailey is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Cailey - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 963 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Cailey really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cailey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
31 babies were named Cailey in 2022 - that's 1 in 4,781,674 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Cailey ranked 3,945 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Cailey, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Cailey. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Cailey living in one state or another. If your name is Cailey and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Cailey relative to the population, you still have to ask 31,476 women and girls their names before you hear Cailey as an answer just once.
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 girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Cailey 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.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cailey 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 Cailey, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cailey
Cailey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
I
L
E
Y
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
Y
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. Cailey sounds like this:
