Kalei — #5190 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kalei

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,935 babies named Kalei between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalei currently holds the #5190 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 142 babies received it in a single year. Kalei is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 265 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalei performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 907 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kalei shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 222 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalei in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalei 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 1,935 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.