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Caydence vs Caylee

American parents have registered 9,769 Caylees since 1880, against 3,898 Caydences. Caylee is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caydence against Caylee, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caydence Caylee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Caylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Caydence had 180 and Caylee had 190.

Side by side

  Caydence Caylee
Total US births 3,8989,769
Most in one year 3111,247
Babies in 2025 3184
Estimated living today 3,9009,700
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 904th girls264th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th2,194th
First recorded 20021980
Girls / boys 3,588 / 3109,769 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Caydence Caylee
England and Wales 3235

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caydence and Caylee.