Meaning not yet researched.
Kaley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #460 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #460 in 1993; #3,866 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,866 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #460.
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Kaley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 girls in 2025. Peak: #460 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 578 (2003).
In 2025, 38 US girls were named Kaley, making it the 3,866th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,160 places from #2,706 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 64 girls named Kaley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #460, reached in 1993. The most girls given the name in a single year was 578, in 2003. For comparison, it was #1,235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaley in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 13,707 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,910 babies named Kaley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,025 US girls were named Kaley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 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 Kailee (12,953 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaleeya and Caleya 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: Kaleeya (124), Caleya (77).
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 Kaley 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 | 38 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2017 | 172 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2015 | 200 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2013 | 242 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2012 | 240 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 2011 | 228 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2010 | 238 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2009 | 253 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2008 | 328 | #853 | — | — |
| 2007 | 413 | #709 | — | — |
| 2006 | 428 | #671 | — | — |
| 2005 | 513 | #559 | — | — |
| 2004 | 553 | #520 | — | — |
| 2003 | 578 | #495 | — | — |
| 2002 | 543 | #507 | — | — |
| 2001 | 508 | #528 | — | — |
| 2000 | 505 | #522 | — | — |
| 1999 | 540 | #481 | — | — |
| 1998 | 510 | #501 | — | — |
| 1997 | 508 | #488 | — | — |
| 1996 | 502 | #480 | — | — |
| 1995 | 479 | #512 | — | — |
| 1994 | 481 | #519 | 5 | #9,558 |
| 1993 | 546 | #460 | — | — |
| 1992 | 524 | #470 | — | — |
| 1991 | 438 | #534 | — | — |
| 1990 | 377 | #601 | — | — |
| 1989 | 318 | #650 | — | — |
| 1988 | 292 | #663 | — | — |
| 1987 | 274 | #675 | 5 | #7,562 |
| 1986 | 239 | #741 | — | — |
| 1985 | 183 | #876 | 5 | #7,069 |
| 1984 | 105 | #1,233 | 5 | #6,827 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,025 | 5 | #6,535 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,816 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,505 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,839 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,858 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,797 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,974 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,365 | — | — |
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).