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Caylee vs Caylix

American parents have registered 9,769 Caylees since 1880, against 55 Caylixes. Caylee is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Caylee Caylix

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 2023, when Caylee had 127 and Caylix had 24.

Side by side

  Caylee Caylix
Total US births 9,76955
Most in one year 1,24724
Babies in 2025 8410
Estimated living today 9,70060
Median age today 152
Peak year 20092023
Best rank 264th girls4,343rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,194th7,679th
First recorded 19802022
Girls / boys 9,769 / 00 / 55

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 Caylees alive today are over 15; half the Caylixes are over 2. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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