Kaeli
Kaeli was given to 358 girls in 2025, #756 among girls’ names; 3,447 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,410 Americans named Kaeli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 3 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaeli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaeli?
#756 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaeli rose from #4,651 in 2015 to #756 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.22 per 1,000.
430 babies in 2023, the peak
Kaeli peaked in 2023, when 430 girls were given it, #679 among girls’ names. The 358 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 358 | #756 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 367 | #769 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 430 | #679 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,327 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,645 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,214 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,486 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,532 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,055 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,581 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,651 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,598 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,037 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,338 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,476 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,177 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,433 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,816 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,730 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,316 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,986 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,141 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,714 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,795 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,925 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,606 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,518 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,571 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,771 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,628 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,656 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,067 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,111 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,134 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,395 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 64 | #2,069 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,722 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,336 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,937 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,196 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,585 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,732 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaeli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaeli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaeli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaeli, and how old are they?
3,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,447 Americans ever recorded as Kaeli. The median Kaeli alive today is 18 years old; half are between 3 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,979 people named Kaeli (1,968 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 643 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kaeli born?
The states with the most babies named Kaeli are Texas, California and Illinois, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 103 | #335 | 1.4× |
| California | 74 | #453 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 18 | #555 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 15 | #459 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,148 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 12 | #560 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 12 | #824 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 11 | #517 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,014 | 0.2× |
| New Mexico | 9 | #172 | 0.8× |
Where Kaeli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaeli is most over-represented in Texas: since 1982 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kaeli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 464,886 babies since 1880, Kaeli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 358 of their 3,226 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaeli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kaeli and names like it
- Compare Kaeli and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaeli peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaeli since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kaeli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaeli alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.