Kalie
Kalie was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,817 among girls’ names; 5,313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,220 Americans named Kalie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kalie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kalie is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Kaylee.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kalie?
#5,817 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalie fell from #2,984 in 2015 to #5,817 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 13.1 per million.
265 babies in 1998, the peak
Kalie peaked in 1998, when 265 girls were given it, #801 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,817 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,871 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,277 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,628 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,894 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,308 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,877 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,271 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,950 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,960 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,984 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,094 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,101 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,060 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,467 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,305 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,195 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,996 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 159 | #1,470 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,491 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,311 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 169 | #1,270 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 178 | #1,199 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 175 | #1,176 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 183 | #1,142 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 209 | #1,010 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 215 | #961 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 265 | #801 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 206 | #959 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 235 | #849 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 215 | #880 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 240 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 220 | #878 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 211 | #922 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 208 | #924 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 204 | #930 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 160 | #1,058 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 147 | #1,073 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,186 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 134 | #1,106 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,529 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,712 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,700 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,064 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,085 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,715 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,973 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalie, and how old are they?
5,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,313 Americans ever recorded as Kalie. The median Kalie alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 4,872 people named Kalie (4,842 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,104 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 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 475 |
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 Kalie born?
The states with the most babies named Kalie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 473 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 373 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 256 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 249 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 188 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 170 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 162 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 153 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 151 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 144 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Kalie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kalie is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1969 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 Kalie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 322,685 babies since 1880, Kalie is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 4,769 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 Kalie
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 Kalie and names like it
- Compare Kalie and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalie peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kalie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kalie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.