Kayli
Kayli was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,547 among girls’ names; 7,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,040 Americans named Kayli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kayli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kayli?
#3,547 among girls’ names, 2025
Kayli fell from #1,805 in 2015 to #3,547 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.0 to 26.8 per million.
333 babies in 2003, the peak
Kayli peaked in 2003, when 333 girls were given it, #751 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,547 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,543 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,064 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,879 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,186 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,612 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,800 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,316 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,477 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,295 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,805 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,808 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,567 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 149 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 198 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,144 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,067 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,006 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 300 | #889 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 320 | #809 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 333 | #775 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 333 | #751 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 301 | #782 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 264 | #868 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 301 | #759 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 319 | #712 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 305 | #724 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 234 | #872 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 261 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 237 | #828 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 216 | #892 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 192 | #973 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 167 | #1,081 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 176 | #1,037 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,146 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 131 | #1,226 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 110 | #1,314 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,488 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,939 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,267 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,981 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,709 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,079 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,141 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,044 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kayli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kayli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kayli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kayli, and how old are they?
7,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,134 Americans ever recorded as Kayli. The median Kayli alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 6,292 people named Kayli (6,282 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,761 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 972 |
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 Kayli born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,779 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,117 | 1.0× |
Where Kayli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kayli is most over-represented in Utah: since 1978 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 Kayli 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 Kayli?
Kayli is a less common spelling of Kaylee: SSA has recorded 7,134 Kayli and 140,601 Kaylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 601,402 babies since 1880, Kayli is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 4,106 babies (1.0%), 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 Kayli
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 Kayli and names like it
- Compare Kayli and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKayli peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kayli since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kayli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kayli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.