# Cailyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cailyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,554 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 5,549 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 87, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 301 | 869 |
| 2012 | 256 | 985 |
| 2013 | 219 | 1,112 |
| 2014 | 178 | 1,328 |
| 2015 | 177 | 1,339 |
| 2016 | 114 | 1,818 |
| 2017 | 87 | 2,186 |
| 2018 | 67 | 2,588 |
| 2019 | 70 | 2,513 |
| 2020 | 70 | 2,474 |
| 2021 | 55 | 3,011 |
| 2022 | 65 | 2,666 |
| 2023 | 53 | 3,105 |
| 2024 | 48 | 3,293 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,728 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 12,347 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,970 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4,157 |
| 2007 | 6 | 3,218 |
| 2008 | 11 | 2,150 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,759 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.