Keylee
Keylee was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,327 among girls’ names; 1,542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Keylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keylee?
#7,327 among girls’ names, 2025
Keylee fell from #4,547 in 2015 to #7,327 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 9.3 per million.
106 babies in 2009, the peak
Keylee peaked in 2009, when 106 girls were given it, #1,966 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,327 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,085 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,733 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,101 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,532 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,395 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,374 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,113 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,750 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,067 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,547 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,882 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,746 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,299 | 46.6 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,336 | 45.5 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,244 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,966 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,024 | 54.5 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,268 | 44.7 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,175 | 46.8 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,611 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,099 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,903 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,835 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,742 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,423 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,539 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,778 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,759 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,647 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,722 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,454 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,802 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,151 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,674 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,850 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,725 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,782 | 3.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,515 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,734 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keylee 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 Keylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keylee, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,542 Americans ever recorded as Keylee. The median Keylee alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,301 people named Keylee (1,296 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 163 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 350 |
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 Keylee born?
The states with the most babies named Keylee are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 139 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 65 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 47 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 33 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 7 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Keylee 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 Keylee?
Keylee is a less common spelling of Kaylee: SSA has recorded 1,542 Keylee and 140,601 Kaylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 268,335 babies since 1880, Keylee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 1,729 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Keylee
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 Keylee and names like it
- Compare Keylee and KayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeylee peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Keylee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keylee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.