Kailea — #4226 US girls' name
987 babies named Kailea in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 76% of names given to girls today.
33% of everyone ever named Kailea was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Kailea in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kailea
The Social Security Administration has registered 987 babies named Kailea between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kailea currently holds the #4226 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kailea performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 324 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kailea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 157 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Hawaii and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kailea in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kailea 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 987 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.
Kailea at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Kailea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1984
- Peak year (2012)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
Currently ranks #4226 among girls.
987 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 49 births in a single year.
Kailea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 324 births that decade — 33% of Kailea's all-time total
Kailea decade highlights
- Peak decade 324 births
- Runner-up 285 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kailea's strongest decade
324 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Kailea by state
Where Kailea concentrates geographically — total births since 1984
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 157 | 15.9% |
| #2 | Hawaii | | 125 | 12.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 0.5% |
157 of 987 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 15.9% of nationwide
- Hawaii 12.7% of nationwide
- Texas 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 15.9% 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.