Caley is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Caley in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Caley in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Caley by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Caley ranks at #5,817. That means there are 5,816 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Caley.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Caley. Girls named Caley have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,357 Caley ranked higher than ever before in 1994. By comparison, there have been 92 years in which the first name Caley 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Caley only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Caley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Caley are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Caley in 21 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Caley live in Colorado – here, one in 15,511 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 199,189 will turn around if you call her first name Caley.
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 five letters, the name Caley is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Caley 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 Caley, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Caley
Caley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
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
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. Caley sounds like this:
