Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,205 in 2025. Its best rank was #26 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #26 in 2009; #255 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#255 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #26.
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Kaylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,205 girls in 2025. Peak: #26 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 7,219 (2009).
In 2025, 1,205 US girls were named Kaylee, making it the 255th most common girls’ name of the year, down 35 places from #220 in 2024. That is 193 fewer than the 1,398 girls named Kaylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #26, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,219. For comparison, it was #61 in 2015 and #5,689 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylee in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 140,601 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 56,543 babies named Kaylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,168 US girls were named Kaylee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,845. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,334 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylee ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #99 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kayla (347,144 babies since 1880), Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880), Kaila (14,556 babies since 1880) and Caylee (9,769 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaelee, Kailea and Kaeley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaelee (1,173), Kailea (1,046), Kaeley (821), Calee (800), Kaylia (797), Callee (790), Kallee (758), Kaelie (749), Kalley (710), Kayleah (669), Kailei (617), Kayly (430), and more.
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 Kaylee 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 9 | #99 | #97 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #112 | #144 |
| Nevada | 19 | #127 | #57 |
| Delaware | 6 | #153 | #88 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #158 | #26 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #175 | #34 |
| Maryland | 27 | #191 | #62 |
| Florida | 93 | #202 | #55 |
| New Jersey | 40 | #208 | #60 |
| Texas | 159 | #214 | #48 |
| Georgia | 49 | #216 | #60 |
| New York | 75 | #230 | #63 |
| California | 140 | #239 | #59 |
| North Carolina | 44 | #252 | #43 |
| Arizona | 28 | #259 | #88 |
| Virginia | 32 | #261 | #63 |
| Idaho | 9 | #264 | #61 |
| Alabama | 18 | #275 | #44 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #277 | #97 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #277 | #50 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #279 | #114 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #281 | #70 |
| Michigan | 31 | #289 | #83 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #297 | #74 |
| Indiana | 24 | #298 | #80 |
| Tennessee | 26 | #302 | #36 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #320 | #70 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #322 | #30 |
| Utah | 14 | #323 | #70 |
| Ohio | 34 | #328 | #81 |
| Washington | 22 | #336 | #68 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #337 | #60 |
| Iowa | 10 | #338 | #69 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #358 | #54 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #360 | #58 |
| Illinois | 28 | #368 | #97 |
| Colorado | 16 | #380 | #72 |
| Missouri | 16 | #380 | #72 |
| Kansas | 9 | #385 | #82 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #411 | #104 |
| Oregon | 9 | #412 | #114 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #471 | #47 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #509 | #80 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,205 | #255 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,398 | #220 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,644 | #183 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,822 | #161 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,979 | #139 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,337 | #117 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,558 | #114 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,963 | #97 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,417 | #84 | — | — |
| 2016 | 3,845 | #72 | — | — |
| 2015 | 4,377 | #61 | 6 | #11,421 |
| 2014 | 4,552 | #52 | 5 | #13,094 |
| 2013 | 5,127 | #40 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5,629 | #35 | 11 | #7,307 |
| 2011 | 6,053 | #36 | 8 | #9,198 |
| 2010 | 6,108 | #35 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 2009 | 7,219 | #26 | 6 | #11,743 |
| 2008 | 6,302 | #31 | 6 | #11,844 |
| 2007 | 6,050 | #35 | 8 | #9,347 |
| 2006 | 5,998 | #42 | 8 | #9,158 |
| 2005 | 5,870 | #40 | 9 | #8,001 |
| 2004 | 5,444 | #50 | 47 | #2,400 |
| 2003 | 5,452 | #53 | 7 | #9,176 |
| 2002 | 4,983 | #57 | 5 | #11,614 |
| 2001 | 4,621 | #66 | 6 | #9,931 |
| 2000 | 4,493 | #72 | 9 | #7,117 |
| 1999 | 4,579 | #69 | 9 | #6,821 |
| 1998 | 3,806 | #86 | — | — |
| 1997 | 3,056 | #107 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,804 | #110 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,518 | #127 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,108 | #154 | 5 | #9,577 |
| 1993 | 1,886 | #167 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,752 | #174 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,494 | #198 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,211 | #235 | — | — |
| 1989 | 985 | #275 | 6 | #7,450 |
| 1988 | 792 | #313 | 5 | #7,914 |
| 1987 | 605 | #386 | — | — |
| 1986 | 488 | #441 | — | — |
| 1985 | 237 | #728 | — | — |
| 1984 | 191 | #824 | — | — |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,978 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,030 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,682 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,009 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,689 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,016 | — | — |
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).