Cayli
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.
Cayli by the numbers
Cayli was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 27 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Cayli
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cayli. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Cayli
Names that are said the same way as Cayli, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Calliebeautiful; a form of Calista or Calliope270 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kaliblack; fierce; Hindu goddess of time1,120 in the US (2017)
- Kallibeautiful; a form of Callie105 in the US (2017)
- Kaliebeautiful; a form of Callie38 in the US (2017)
- Caliebeautiful; a variant of Callie or Cally30 in the US (2017)
- Kahlithe dark goddess; a form of Kali or modern spelling variant21 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cayli
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