Meaning not yet researched.
Kiley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #307 in 2008; #2,798 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,798 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #307.
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Kiley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 1,090 (2008).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Kiley, making it the 2,798th most common girls’ name of the year, up 111 places from #2,909 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 57 girls named Kiley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,090. For comparison, it was #900 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiley in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 20,272 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,193 babies named Kiley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,095 US girls were named Kiley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 216. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kiley ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,034 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kylie (122,340 babies since 1880), Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880), Kelley (52,385 babies since 1880) and Kylee (50,835 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kileah 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: Kileah (43).
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 Kiley 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,034 | #791 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,167 | 5 | #13,320 |
| 2015 | 307 | #900 | — | — |
| 2014 | 433 | #661 | — | — |
| 2013 | 560 | #533 | — | — |
| 2012 | 595 | #513 | — | — |
| 2011 | 737 | #423 | 6 | #11,637 |
| 2010 | 840 | #379 | — | — |
| 2009 | 895 | #359 | 8 | #9,493 |
| 2008 | 1,090 | #307 | 8 | #9,481 |
| 2007 | 887 | #367 | — | — |
| 2006 | 742 | #428 | — | — |
| 2005 | 815 | #385 | 5 | #12,495 |
| 2004 | 840 | #373 | 10 | #7,304 |
| 2003 | 850 | #361 | 13 | #5,739 |
| 2002 | 731 | #400 | 7 | #8,978 |
| 2001 | 643 | #429 | 15 | #5,032 |
| 2000 | 628 | #451 | 6 | #9,774 |
| 1999 | 590 | #452 | 19 | #3,921 |
| 1998 | 466 | #538 | 18 | #3,938 |
| 1997 | 417 | #562 | 14 | #4,582 |
| 1996 | 401 | #575 | 18 | #3,765 |
| 1995 | 360 | #615 | 21 | #3,259 |
| 1994 | 307 | #686 | 15 | #4,201 |
| 1993 | 318 | #686 | 21 | #3,205 |
| 1992 | 308 | #700 | 24 | #2,885 |
| 1991 | 298 | #710 | 18 | #3,403 |
| 1990 | 276 | #753 | 30 | #2,350 |
| 1989 | 294 | #691 | 31 | #2,224 |
| 1988 | 245 | #764 | 20 | #2,811 |
| 1987 | 212 | #824 | 17 | #3,024 |
| 1986 | 163 | #969 | 27 | #2,135 |
| 1985 | 169 | #932 | 30 | #1,948 |
| 1984 | 175 | #870 | 20 | #2,493 |
| 1983 | 167 | #903 | 33 | #1,735 |
| 1982 | 158 | #945 | 20 | #2,475 |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,096 | 24 | #2,168 |
| 1980 | 221 | #751 | 36 | #1,643 |
| 1979 | 275 | #633 | 38 | #1,554 |
| 1978 | 273 | #620 | 48 | #1,314 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,638 | 31 | #1,724 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,036 | 42 | #1,385 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,539 | 60 | #1,091 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,193 | 56 | #1,105 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,784 | 54 | #1,115 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,552 | 71 | #964 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,004 | 80 | #912 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,787 | 55 | #1,108 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,697 | 10 | #2,969 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,607 | 13 | #2,394 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,215 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,101 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,538 | — | — |
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).