Entry № 1818 · English origin

Cayley Cayley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pure; a modern favourite"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "pure; a modern favourite".

Cayley is a variant spelling of Kaylee, a modern name linked to the sense of pure and beloved.

Pure; a modern favourite — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Cayley
Transliteration
Cayley
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Cayley stands.

Cayley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cayleys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Cayley.

The number behind Cayley.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cayley reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.