Kaili
Kaili was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,425 among girls’ names; 2,931 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,890 Americans named Kaili and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaili by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaili?
#6,425 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaili fell from #3,321 in 2015 to #6,425 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 11.2 per million.
171 babies in 2003, the peak
Kaili peaked in 2003, when 171 babies were given it (164 girls, #1,276 among girls’ names). The 18 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,425 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,858 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,926 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,720 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,364 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,603 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,831 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,401 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,259 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,352 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,321 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,663 | 36.9 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,644 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,464 | 42.6 |
| 2011 | 90 | #2,135 | 51.2 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,066 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,095 | 52.8 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,936 | 57.6 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,011 | 53.1 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,536 | 75.2 |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,625 | 67.1 |
| 2004 | 154 | #1,366 | 83.9 |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,276 | 89.8 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,628 | 63.4 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,768 | 56.1 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,623 | 60.0 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,836 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,790 | 49.2 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,341 | 32.7 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,922 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,196 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,109 | 36.4 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,132 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,357 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,425 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,038 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,723 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,819 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,129 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,082 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,345 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,455 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,018 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,601 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,399 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,083 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,960 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,248 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,936 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaili a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,931 Americans recorded as Kaili, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kaili: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaili, and how old are they?
2,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,931 Americans ever recorded as Kaili. The median Kaili alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,821 people named Kaili (2,695 women and girls, 126 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 625 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 501 |
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 Kaili born?
The states with the most babies named Kaili are California, Texas and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 476 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 139 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 127 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 74 | not ranked | 6.4× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kaili is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaili is most over-represented in California: since 1977 it was given 1.2 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 Kaili with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kaili?
Kaili is a less common spelling of Kaylee: SSA has recorded 2,931 Kaili and 140,601 Kaylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 611,770 babies since 1880, Kaili is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 3,955 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Kaili
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 Kaili and names like it
- Compare Kaili and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaili peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaili since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kaili.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaili alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.