Kaleesi
Kaleesi was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,931 among girls’ names; 361 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaleesi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaleesi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaleesi is “a female given name from fiction or popular culture, variant of Khaleesi”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaleesi?
#4,931 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaleesi fell from #4,653 in 2015 to #4,931 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 16.8 per million.
39 babies in 2014, the peak
Kaleesi peaked in 2014, when 39 girls were given it, #3,876 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,931 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,956 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,533 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,331 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,243 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,965 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,710 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,533 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,990 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,918 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,653 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,876 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,562 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,771 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,018 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaleesi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaleesi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaleesi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaleesi, and how old are they?
An estimated 359 Americans named Kaleesi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,972 babies since 1880, Kaleesi is the third most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 529 babies (5.1%), again the third 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 Kaleesi
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 Kaleesi and names like it
- Compare Kaleesi and KhaleesiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaleesi peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaleesi since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kaleesi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaleesi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.