Kaelee — #9136 US girls' name
1,173 babies named Kaelee in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 48% of names given to girls today.
40% of everyone ever named Kaelee was born in this single decade.
58 babies were named Kaelee in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kaelee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,173 babies named Kaelee between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kaelee currently holds the #9136 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 58 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaelee performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 467 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kaelee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 58 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Kaelee in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kaelee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,173 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Kaelee at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kaelee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1984
- Peak year (2000)
- 58
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
Currently ranks #9136 among girls.
1,173 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 58 births in a single year.
Kaelee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 467 births that decade — 40% of Kaelee's all-time total
Kaelee decade highlights
- Peak decade 467 births
- Runner-up 353 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Kaelee's strongest decade
467 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Kaelee by state
Where Kaelee concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 58 | 4.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 36 | 3.1% |
| #3 | Washington | | 7 | 0.6% |
| #4 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #5 | Nebraska | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.4% |
58 of 1,173 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 4.9% of nationwide
- Texas 3.1% of nationwide
- Washington 0.6% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.4% of nationwide
- Nebraska 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.