Meaning not yet researched.
Kayli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #713 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #713 in 1999; #3,548 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kayli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,548 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #713.
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Kayli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #713 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 333 (2004).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Kayli, making it the 3,548th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5 places from #3,543 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 44 girls named Kayli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #713, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 333, in 2004. For comparison, it was #1,805 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kayli in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 7,134 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,882 babies named Kayli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 611 US girls were named Kayli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 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), Cali (23,745 babies since 1880) and Kaylie (22,101 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 Kayli 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 | 43 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2012 | 149 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 2010 | 198 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2009 | 222 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 2008 | 245 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2006 | 300 | #889 | — | — |
| 2005 | 320 | #809 | — | — |
| 2004 | 333 | #775 | — | — |
| 2003 | 333 | #751 | — | — |
| 2002 | 301 | #782 | — | — |
| 2001 | 264 | #868 | — | — |
| 2000 | 301 | #759 | — | — |
| 1999 | 319 | #713 | — | — |
| 1998 | 305 | #724 | — | — |
| 1997 | 234 | #873 | — | — |
| 1996 | 261 | #793 | — | — |
| 1995 | 237 | #829 | — | — |
| 1994 | 216 | #893 | — | — |
| 1993 | 192 | #975 | — | — |
| 1992 | 167 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1991 | 176 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1990 | 150 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1989 | 131 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1988 | 110 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,565 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,983 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,711 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,143 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,046 | — | — |
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).