Kiely
Kiely was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,174 among girls’ names; 849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kiely?
#16,174 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiely fell from #8,226 in 2015 to #16,174 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
52 babies in 2008, the peak
Kiely peaked in 2008, when 52 girls were given it, #3,241 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,174 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,408 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,445 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,947 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,762 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,147 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,962 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,070 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,348 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,226 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,323 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,610 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,012 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,914 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,070 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,628 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,241 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,029 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,027 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,308 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,140 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,101 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,304 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,450 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,481 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,145 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,875 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,445 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,407 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,568 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,882 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,909 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,475 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,283 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,398 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,679 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,407 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,760 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,594 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,943 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,524 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,004 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,066 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,692 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,070 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,056 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,015 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiely 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 Kiely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiely, and how old are they?
An estimated 836 Americans named Kiely 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 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 812 people named Kiely (779 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,499 babies since 1880, Kiely is the fifth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 482 babies (1.0%), 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 Kiely
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 Kiely and names like it
- Compare Kiely and KileyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKiely peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiely since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kiely.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kiely alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.