Kailea
Kailea was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,914 among girls’ names; 1,046 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Kailea 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 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kailea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kailea?
#2,914 among girls’ names, 2025
Kailea rose from #4,446 in 2015 to #2,914 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.9 to 36.1 per million.
58 babies in 2025, the peak
Kailea peaked in 2025, when 58 girls were given it, #2,914 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 35 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,914 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,160 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,231 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,001 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,971 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,942 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,487 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,887 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,336 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,772 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,446 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,094 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,377 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,340 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,508 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,381 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,152 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,357 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,945 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,017 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,062 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,659 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,348 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,433 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,932 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,020 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,763 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,076 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,655 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,638 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,547 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,318 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,527 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,584 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,710 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,631 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,132 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,443 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,647 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,086 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,154 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kailea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kailea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kailea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kailea, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,046 Americans ever recorded as Kailea. The median Kailea alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 723 people named Kailea (719 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 419 |
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 Kailea born?
The states with the most babies named Kailea are Hawaii, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 14 | #33 | 34.0× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,513 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #3,308 | 1.2× |
Where Kailea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kailea is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1984 it was given 34.0 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 Kailea 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 565,847 babies since 1880, Kailea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 2,523 babies (2.3%), the sixth 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 Kailea
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 Kailea and names like it
- Compare Kailea and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKailea peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kailea since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kailea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kailea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.