Kaylei
Kaylei was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,315 among girls’ names; 2,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Kaylei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylei?
#7,315 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylei fell from #2,825 in 2015 to #7,315 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 9.3 per million.
128 babies in 2007, the peak
Kaylei peaked in 2007, when 128 girls were given it, #1,709 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,315 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,527 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,507 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,728 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,051 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,871 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,198 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,317 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,915 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,440 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,825 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,598 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,856 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,038 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,799 | 64.2 |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,178 | 50.6 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,925 | 59.3 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,895 | 59.2 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,709 | 66.6 |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,673 | 66.3 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,696 | 63.3 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,932 | 52.8 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,792 | 57.5 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,186 | 42.3 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,036 | 46.1 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,466 | 34.1 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,447 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,039 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,118 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,168 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,815 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,149 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,343 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,146 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,085 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,565 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,329 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,753 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,107 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,078 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylei has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaylei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylei, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,134 Americans ever recorded as Kaylei. The median Kaylei alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,672 people named Kaylei (1,672 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 551 |
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 Kaylei born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylei are Texas, California and Georgia, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 159 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 116 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 65 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 39 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 31 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Kaylei 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 599,332 babies since 1880, Kaylei is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 3,467 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 Kaylei
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 Kaylei and names like it
- Compare Kaylei and KaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaylei peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylei since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kaylei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaylei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.