Kaylee
Kaylee was given to 1,205 girls in 2025, #255 among girls’ names; 140,601 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 139,000 Americans named Kaylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kaylee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kaylee is “a female given name.”
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Coined toward the end of the 20th century
A combination of Kay + Lee.
A variant of the surname Cayley or Keeley.
/ˈkeɪli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kaylee?
#255 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylee fell from #61 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.5 to 0.75 per 1,000.
7,225 babies in 2009, the peak
Kaylee peaked in 2009, when 7,225 babies were given it (7,219 girls, #26 among girls’ names). The 1,205 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,205 | #255 | 0.75 |
| 2024 | 1,398 | #220 | 0.86 |
| 2023 | 1,644 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,822 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,979 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,337 | #117 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,558 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,963 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 3,417 | #84 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 3,845 | #72 | 2.2 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,377 | #61 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 4,552 | #52 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 5,127 | #40 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 5,629 | #35 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 6,053 | #36 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6,108 | #35 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7,219 | #26 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 6,302 | #31 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 6,050 | #35 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5,998 | #42 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5,870 | #40 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5,444 | #50 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5,452 | #53 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 4,983 | #57 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 4,621 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 4,493 | #72 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 4,579 | #69 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 3,806 | #86 | 2.2 |
| 1997 | 3,056 | #107 | 1.8 |
| 1996 | 2,804 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 2,518 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 2,108 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 1,886 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 1,752 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 1,494 | #198 | 0.80 |
| 1990 | 1,211 | #235 | 0.64 |
| 1989 | 985 | #275 | 0.53 |
| 1988 | 792 | #313 | 0.44 |
| 1987 | 605 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1986 | 488 | #441 | 0.28 |
| 1985 | 237 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 191 | #824 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,861 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,906 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,278 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,234 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,233 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,977 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,028 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,982 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,766 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,497 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,332 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,718 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,658 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,975 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,014 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylee has been given almost only to girls: 176 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kaylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylee, and how old are they?
139,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 140,601 Americans ever recorded as Kaylee. The median Kaylee alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 115,422 people named Kaylee (115,261 women and girls, 161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129,620 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 236 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 84,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37,000 |
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 Kaylee born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylee are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 159 | #214 | 1.0× |
| California | 140 | #239 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 93 | #202 | 0.9× |
| New York | 75 | #230 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 49 | #216 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #252 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 40 | #208 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #297 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 34 | #328 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 32 | #261 | 0.8× |
Where Kaylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylee is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1943 it was given 1.4 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 Kaylee 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 611,011 babies since 1880, Kaylee is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,205 of their 3,099 babies (39%), the 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 Kaylee
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 Kaylee and names like it
- Compare Kaylee and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaylee peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kaylee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kaylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.