Kalee
Kalee was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,387 among girls’ names; 3,957 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,880 Americans named Kalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kalee?
#11,387 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalee fell from #4,914 in 2015 to #11,387 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 5.0 per million.
189 babies in 1999, the peak
Kalee peaked in 1999, when 189 girls were given it, #1,065 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,387 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,769 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,247 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,773 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,813 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,307 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,832 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,384 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,161 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,782 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,914 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,684 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,740 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,555 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,196 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,920 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,627 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,123 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,982 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,883 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 104 | #1,827 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,694 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,637 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,452 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 142 | #1,328 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 189 | #1,065 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 169 | #1,127 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 161 | #1,152 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 154 | #1,180 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 153 | #1,143 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,084 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 178 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 151 | #1,165 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,070 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,338 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 131 | #1,225 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,447 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,473 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 82 | #1,500 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,063 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,744 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,289 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,555 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,895 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,503 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,021 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,008 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,957 Americans recorded as Kalee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Kalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalee, and how old are they?
3,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,957 Americans ever recorded as Kalee. The median Kalee alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,576 people named Kalee (3,469 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 121 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 299 |
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 Kalee born?
The states with the most babies named Kalee are Texas, California and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 312 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 197 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 141 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 137 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 120 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 78 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 60 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Kalee 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 Kalee?
Kalee is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 3,957 Kalee and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 324,838 babies since 1880, Kalee is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 4,376 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 Kalee
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 Kalee and names like it
- Compare Kalee and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalee peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalee since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kalee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.