Meaning not yet researched.
Kailey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 153 in 2025. Its best rank was #228 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #228 in 2004; #1,420 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kailey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,420 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #228.
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Kailey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 153 girls in 2025. Peak: #228 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 1,439 (2004).
In 2025, 153 US girls were named Kailey, making it the 1,420th most common girls’ name of the year, down 132 places from #1,288 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 180 girls named Kailey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #228, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,439. For comparison, it was #531 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kailey in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 27,254 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,846 babies named Kailey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,142 US girls were named Kailey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 507. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,505 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kailey ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #881 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), Kaley (13,707 babies since 1880), Kailee (12,953 babies since 1880) and Kayley (8,586 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaleya, Caeley and Kaileah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaleya (428), Caeley (423), Kaileah (397), Kaileia (185), Caily (183), Kailly (89), Cailley (54), Kaelly (52), Kahleya (5).
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 Kailey 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 10 | #881 | #676 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,136 | #483 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,200 | #444 |
| California | 21 | #1,203 | #367 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,274 | #748 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,350 | #1,220 |
| New York | 10 | #1,368 | #490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2023 | 226 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 2022 | 256 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2021 | 271 | #961 | — | — |
| 2020 | 322 | #848 | — | — |
| 2019 | 346 | #800 | — | — |
| 2018 | 427 | #685 | — | — |
| 2017 | 454 | #656 | — | — |
| 2016 | 507 | #595 | — | — |
| 2015 | 588 | #531 | — | — |
| 2014 | 664 | #476 | — | — |
| 2013 | 671 | #452 | — | — |
| 2012 | 757 | #415 | — | — |
| 2011 | 906 | #356 | — | — |
| 2010 | 834 | #384 | — | — |
| 2009 | 999 | #330 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,083 | #309 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,178 | #287 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,275 | #258 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,298 | #251 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,439 | #228 | 10 | #7,266 |
| 2003 | 1,331 | #246 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,093 | #284 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,090 | #288 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,050 | #305 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,048 | #294 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,114 | #279 | — | — |
| 1997 | 789 | #351 | — | — |
| 1996 | 730 | #369 | — | — |
| 1995 | 676 | #391 | — | — |
| 1994 | 583 | #434 | — | — |
| 1993 | 573 | #436 | — | — |
| 1992 | 529 | #465 | — | — |
| 1991 | 412 | #566 | — | — |
| 1990 | 376 | #603 | — | — |
| 1989 | 308 | #662 | — | — |
| 1988 | 226 | #811 | — | — |
| 1987 | 169 | #956 | — | — |
| 1986 | 148 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1985 | 82 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,698 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,046 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,092 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,829 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,578 | — | — |
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).