Meaning not yet researched.
Kailee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 1999; #1,969 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kailee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,969 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #486.
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Kailee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #486 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 584 (2003).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Kailee, making it the 1,969th most common girls’ name of the year, down 34 places from #1,935 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 103 girls named Kailee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #486, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 584, in 2003. For comparison, it was #812 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kailee in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 12,953 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,169 babies named Kailee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,830 US girls were named Kailee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 304. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kailee ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,013 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880), Kaylie (22,101 babies since 1880) and Kaley (13,707 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 Kailee 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #1,013 | #1,189 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,026 | #434 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,218 | #883 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,854 | #827 |
| California | 11 | #1,891 | #973 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,318 | #749 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 2019 | 207 | #1,159 | 5 | #13,108 |
| 2018 | 246 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2017 | 281 | #939 | — | — |
| 2016 | 304 | #912 | — | — |
| 2015 | 345 | #812 | — | — |
| 2014 | 319 | #864 | — | — |
| 2013 | 368 | #740 | — | — |
| 2012 | 377 | #738 | — | — |
| 2011 | 424 | #670 | — | — |
| 2010 | 439 | #664 | — | — |
| 2009 | 455 | #650 | — | — |
| 2008 | 490 | #631 | — | — |
| 2007 | 512 | #586 | — | — |
| 2006 | 496 | #589 | 9 | #8,383 |
| 2005 | 499 | #575 | — | — |
| 2004 | 537 | #529 | — | — |
| 2003 | 584 | #493 | — | — |
| 2002 | 534 | #514 | — | — |
| 2001 | 503 | #532 | 8 | #7,927 |
| 2000 | 536 | #504 | 6 | #9,696 |
| 1999 | 534 | #486 | — | — |
| 1998 | 496 | #510 | — | — |
| 1997 | 401 | #579 | — | — |
| 1996 | 359 | #626 | — | — |
| 1995 | 286 | #719 | — | — |
| 1994 | 246 | #821 | — | — |
| 1993 | 215 | #898 | — | — |
| 1992 | 216 | #905 | — | — |
| 1991 | 221 | #890 | — | — |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1989 | 146 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,501 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,503 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,597 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,249 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,937 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,586 | — | — |
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).