Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,673 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,673 in 2006; #7,317 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaylei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,317 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,673.
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Kaylei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,673 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 128 (2007).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Kaylei, making it the 7,317th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,787 places from #5,530 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 23 girls named Kaylei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,673, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 128, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,825 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylei in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 8 babies. In all, 2,134 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,015 babies named Kaylei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 365 US girls were named Kaylei; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kaylee (140,601 babies since 1880), Kayleigh (34,568 babies since 1880), Kali (33,438 babies since 1880) and Kailey (27,254 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 Kaylei 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 | 15 | #7,317 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,731 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 2006 | 126 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,155 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,349 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,152 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,091 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,571 | — | — |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,335 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,758 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,112 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,082 | — | — |
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).