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Caydence vs Caylie

American parents have registered 3,898 Caydences since 1880, against 1,641 Caylies. Caydence is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caydence against Caylie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caydence Caylie

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

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Caydence for 22 years and Caylie for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Caydence Caylie
Total US births 3,8981,641
Most in one year 311106
Babies in 2025 317
Estimated living today 3,9001,600
Median age today 1420
Peak year 20092009
Best rank 904th girls1,956th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th11,932nd
First recorded 20021984
Girls / boys 3,588 / 3101,641 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Caylies alive today are over 20; half the Caydences are over 14. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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