Meaning not yet researched.
Kalei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,403 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,403 in 2003; #8,605 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Kalei in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,605 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,403.
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Kalei: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,403 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 142 (2003).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Kalei, making it the 8,605th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,385 places from #5,220 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 25 girls named Kalei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,403, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 142. For comparison, it was #4,448 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Kalei, making it the 7,420th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,976 places from #10,396 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 7 boys named Kalei in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,117, reached in 1975. The most boys given the name in a single year was 17, in 2022. For comparison, it was #11,396 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalei in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 2,224 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 971 babies named Kalei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 291 US girls were named Kalei; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kali (33,438 babies since 1880), Kailey (27,254 babies since 1880) and Cali (23,745 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 Kalei in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,605 | 11 | #7,420 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,220 | 7 | #10,396 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,235 | 7 | #10,232 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,331 | 17 | #5,536 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,678 | 13 | #6,502 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,713 | 13 | #6,467 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,489 | 7 | #10,281 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,240 | 11 | #7,368 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,867 | 12 | #6,899 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,302 | 11 | #7,379 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,448 | 6 | #11,396 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,402 | 6 | #11,417 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,345 | 8 | #9,220 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,751 | 5 | #13,233 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,743 | 9 | #8,430 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,229 | 5 | #13,270 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,629 | 6 | #11,712 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,338 | 11 | #7,346 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,173 | 8 | #9,147 |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,997 | 10 | #7,401 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,080 | 6 | #10,659 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,959 | 8 | #8,055 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,786 | 8 | #7,930 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,784 | 7 | #8,668 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,615 | 10 | #6,271 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,825 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,760 | 5 | #9,457 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,425 | 5 | #8,552 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,737 | 5 | #7,894 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,021 | 6 | #6,534 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,162 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,573 | 7 | #5,267 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,133 | 6 | #5,867 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,047 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,117 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,802 |
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).