In 2025, 35 US girls were named Kaily, making it the 4,113th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,014 places from #3,099 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 52 girls named Kaily in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,682, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 126. For comparison, it was #2,603 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaily in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 7 babies. In all, 2,560 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 855 babies named Kaily.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 533 US girls were named Kaily; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880), Kaley (13,707 babies since 1880) and Kailee (12,953 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.