Kaely
Kaely was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,316 among girls’ names; 1,156 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Kaely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaely?
#3,316 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaely rose from #3,884 in 2015 to #3,316 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 29.2 per million.
71 babies in 2023, the peak
Kaely peaked in 2023, when 71 girls were given it, #2,504 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,316 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,140 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,504 | 44.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,525 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,469 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,964 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,971 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,957 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,625 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,675 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,884 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,805 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,198 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,877 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,410 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,702 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,005 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,310 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,250 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,035 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,218 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,225 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,157 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,341 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,683 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,466 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,595 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,520 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,285 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,659 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,751 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,116 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,226 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,449 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,777 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,958 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,418 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,730 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,316 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,250 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,888 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,648 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,598 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaely, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,156 Americans ever recorded as Kaely. The median Kaely alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 811 people named Kaely (806 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 909 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 194 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 478 |
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 Kaely born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,747 | 1.1× |
| California | 8 | #2,381 | 1.1× |
Where Kaely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaely is most over-represented in Texas: since 1980 it was given 1.1 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 Kaely 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 453,613 babies since 1880, Kaely is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 2,191 babies (2.1%), the fifth 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 Kaely
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 Kaely and names like it
- Compare Kaely and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaely peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaely since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Kaely.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaely alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.