Kailee
Kailee was given to 98 girls in 2025, #1,969 among girls’ names; 12,953 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Kailee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kailee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kailee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kailee is “a female given name.”
Variant of Kaylee.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kailee?
#1,969 among girls’ names, 2025
Kailee fell from #812 in 2015 to #1,969 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.19 to 0.06 per 1,000.
584 babies in 2003, the peak
Kailee peaked in 2003, when 584 girls were given it, #493 among girls’ names. The 98 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,969 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,935 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,674 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,528 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,388 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,159 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 246 | #1,045 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 281 | #939 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 304 | #912 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 345 | #812 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 319 | #864 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 368 | #740 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 377 | #738 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 424 | #670 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 439 | #664 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 455 | #650 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 490 | #631 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 512 | #586 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 496 | #589 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 499 | #575 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 537 | #529 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 584 | #493 | 0.32 |
| 2002 | 534 | #514 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 503 | #532 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 536 | #504 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 534 | #486 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 496 | #510 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 401 | #579 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 359 | #626 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 286 | #718 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 246 | #820 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 215 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 216 | #903 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 221 | #888 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,130 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 146 | #1,132 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,271 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,575 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,642 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,765 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,787 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,600 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,502 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,247 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kailee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kailee has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kailee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kailee, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,953 Americans ever recorded as Kailee. The median Kailee alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 10,797 people named Kailee (10,731 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,085 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 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,850 |
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 Kailee born?
The states with the most babies named Kailee are Texas, California and Georgia, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,854 | 0.8× |
| California | 11 | #1,891 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,026 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,013 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,318 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,218 | 1.2× |
Where Kailee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kailee is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1976 it was given 5.6 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 Kailee 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 253,624 babies since 1880, Kailee is the sixth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 2,093 babies (4.7%), 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 Kailee
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 Kailee and names like it
- Compare Kailee and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKailee peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kailee since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kailee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kailee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.