Meaning not yet researched.
Kaeli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 358 in 2025. Its best rank was #679 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #679 in 2023; #756 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaeli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#756 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #679.
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Kaeli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 358 girls in 2025. Peak: #679 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 430 (2023).
In 2025, 358 US girls were named Kaeli, making it the 756th most common girls’ name of the year, up 13 places from #769 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 367 girls named Kaeli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #679, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 430. For comparison, it was #4,652 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaeli in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 3,447 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,290 babies named Kaeli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,389 US girls were named Kaeli; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 430. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,490 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaeli ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #172 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880), Kaylie (22,101 babies since 1880) and Kallie (12,683 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kaeli in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 9 | #172 | — |
| Texas | 103 | #335 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #407 | — |
| California | 74 | #453 | — |
| Arizona | 15 | #459 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #517 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #543 | — |
| Illinois | 18 | #555 | — |
| Washington | 12 | #560 | — |
| Nevada | 5 | #561 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #620 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #772 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #824 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,014 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,088 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,148 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,740 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 358 | #756 | — | — |
| 2024 | 367 | #769 | — | — |
| 2023 | 430 | #679 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,649 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,059 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,039 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1990 | 64 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,565 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,427 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,735 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).