Kaley
Kaley was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,865 among girls’ names; 13,707 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,500 Americans named Kaley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaley is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaley?
#3,865 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaley fell from #1,235 in 2015 to #3,865 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.02 per 1,000.
578 babies in 2003, the peak
Kaley peaked in 2003, when 578 girls were given it, #495 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,865 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,706 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,719 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,396 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,277 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,013 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,603 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 172 | #1,351 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,316 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 200 | #1,235 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,045 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 242 | #1,030 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 240 | #1,051 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 228 | #1,082 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 238 | #1,045 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 253 | #1,028 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 328 | #853 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 413 | #709 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 428 | #671 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 513 | #559 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 553 | #520 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 578 | #495 | 0.32 |
| 2002 | 543 | #507 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 508 | #528 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 505 | #522 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 540 | #481 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 510 | #501 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 508 | #488 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 502 | #480 | 0.29 |
| 1995 | 479 | #512 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 481 | #519 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 546 | #460 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 524 | #470 | 0.28 |
| 1991 | 438 | #534 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 377 | #600 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 318 | #649 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 292 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 274 | #675 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 239 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 183 | #876 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 105 | #1,233 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,085 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,718 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,025 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,969 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,815 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,229 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,444 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,504 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,930 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,364 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaley has been given almost only to girls: 25 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaley, and how old are they?
13,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,707 Americans ever recorded as Kaley. The median Kaley alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 12,428 people named Kaley (12,338 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 178 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,710 |
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 Kaley born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,929 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,101 | 0.9× |
Where Kaley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaley is most over-represented in Florida: since 1967 it was given 2.4 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 Kaley 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 Kaley?
Kaley is a less common spelling of Callie: SSA has recorded 13,707 Kaley and 70,827 Callie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 315,138 babies since 1880, Kaley is the fifth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 4,275 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Kaley
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 Kaley and names like it
- Compare Kaley and CallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaley peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaley since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kaley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.