Cayleigh

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cayleigh: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#536highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2014

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1802
2000	#2167
2001	#2023
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2005	#2970
2006	#3548
2007	#5201
2009	#4564
2011	#5785
2014	#5691

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 5 of the 23 years from 2000 to 2022.

In 2007: #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5201 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1802 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2022
Highest recorded position: #536 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 2000–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2022.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Cayleigh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 59 births with the name.

Cayleigh across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cayleigh's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#536 (2000)	#905 (2022)	5 of 23	15 (2000–2022)	3 (2000)
England and Wales · Girls	#1802 (1997)	#1802 (1997)	#5691 (2014)	12 of 18	59 (1997–2014)	9 (1997)

Cayleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cayleigh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	1 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	44	9 of 10	5
2010s	6	2 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #536 in Republic of Ireland in 2000.

Cayleigh's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Cayleigh is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Cayleigh, between 1997 and 2022, in 15 of those 26 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1997–2014	12	#1802 in 1997
Republic of Ireland	2000–2022	5	#536 in 2000

No registrar recorded it for 6 years after 2014; it appears again in 2021.

Cayleigh was ranked #536 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abbi#536
Adele#536
Aedin#536
Agnes#536

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #536 in Republic of Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Cayleigh

Cayleigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cayleigh across 2 official records

Cayleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Cayleigh is officially recorded

Names published alongside Cayleigh

Cayleigh at a glance

Cayleigh across 2 official records

Cayleigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Cayleigh