Kailey
#1,417 for girls in 2025, 153 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #6,976
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 1,439 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 27,244since 1970
Kailey over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailey has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,417 | 153 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,284 | 180 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,089 | 226 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,015 | 256 | — | |
| 2021 | #958 | 271 | — | |
| 2020 | #847 | 322 | — | |
| 2019 | #799 | 346 | — | |
| 2018 | #684 | 427 | — | |
| 2017 | #656 | 454 | — | |
| 2016 | #595 | 507 | — | |
| 2015 | #531 | 588 | — | |
| 2014 | #476 | 664 | — | |
| 2013 | #452 | 671 | — | |
| 2012 | #415 | 757 | — | |
| 2011 | #356 | 906 | — | |
| 2010 | #383 | 834 | — | |
| 2009 | #330 | 999 | — | |
| 2008 | #309 | 1,083 | — | |
| 2007 | #287 | 1,178 | — | |
| 2006 | #258 | 1,275 | — | |
| 2005 | #251 | 1,298 | — | |
| 2004 | #228 | 1,439 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #245 | 1,331 | — | |
| 2002 | #284 | 1,093 | — | |
| 2001 | #288 | 1,090 | — | |
| 2000 | #305 | 1,050 | — | |
| 1999 | #294 | 1,048 | — | |
| 1998 | #279 | 1,114 | — | |
| 1997 | #351 | 789 | — | |
| 1996 | #368 | 730 | — | |
| 1995 | #391 | 676 | — | |
| 1994 | #434 | 583 | — | |
| 1993 | #436 | 573 | — | |
| 1992 | #465 | 529 | — | |
| 1991 | #564 | 412 | — | |
| 1990 | #602 | 376 | — | |
| 1989 | #662 | 308 | — | |
| 1988 | #809 | 226 | — | |
| 1987 | #954 | 169 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,024 | 148 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,493 | 82 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,992 | 29 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailey! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kailey is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#158 · 1 in 695
- Nebraska#169 · 1 in 810
- Oklahoma#198 · 1 in 952
- Iowa#230 · 1 in 1,297
- Minnesota#258 · 1 in 1,601
Best ever in a state: #76 in Wyoming, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #158 | 20 | 1 in 695 |
| Nebraska | #169 | 10 | 1 in 810 |
| Oklahoma | #198 | 17 | 1 in 952 |
| Iowa | #230 | 11 | 1 in 1,297 |
| Minnesota | #258 | 16 | 1 in 1,601 |
| Hawaii | #262 | 5 | 1 in 934 |
| Arkansas | #268 | 8 | 1 in 1,426 |
| Washington | #282 | 20 | 1 in 1,445 |
| Michigan | #293 | 28 | 1 in 1,936 |
| Missouri | #316 | 14 | 1 in 2,119 |
| North Carolina | #322 | 18 | 1 in 2,120 |
| Nevada | #332 | 5 | 1 in 1,554 |
| Texas | #348 | 68 | 1 in 2,000 |
| Oregon | #349 | 9 | 1 in 1,781 |
| Illinois | #362 | 33 | 1 in 2,250 |
| Massachusetts | #364 | 14 | 1 in 2,416 |
| Colorado | #365 | 10 | 1 in 2,023 |
| Arizona | #375 | 14 | 1 in 1,932 |
| Florida | #377 | 31 | 1 in 2,404 |
| Louisiana | #378 | 11 | 1 in 2,038 |
| Alabama | #408 | 8 | 1 in 2,625 |
| Connecticut | #414 | 6 | 1 in 2,845 |
| Wisconsin | #424 | 9 | 1 in 2,924 |
| Indiana | #432 | 11 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Kentucky | #443 | 6 | 1 in 3,332 |
| Pennsylvania | #444 | 20 | 1 in 3,247 |
| Maryland | #479 | 8 | 1 in 3,158 |
| Virginia | #525 | 9 | 1 in 3,918 |
| Ohio | #568 | 14 | 1 in 4,620 |
| Georgia | #577 | 10 | 1 in 4,075 |
| New York | #588 | 26 | 1 in 4,278 |
| California | #636 | 54 | 1 in 4,491 |
| Tennessee | #637 | 6 | 1 in 4,870 |
| New Jersey | #962 | 5 | 1 in 8,804 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kailey
- 133 spots since 2024 (#1,284 → #1,417)
- 570 spots since 2020 (#847 → #1,417)
- 886 spots since 2015 (#531 → #1,417)
- Biggest jump: 147 spots in 1989 (#809 → #662)
- Biggest drop: 115 spots in 2019 (#684 → #799)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2004 at #228 (1,439 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1987–2021
- Highest: 1 in 1,276 girls born in 2004 were named Kailey (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,505 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.4% of all girls named Kailey (11,836) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #7,995 (1970) | #8,144 |
| 1980s | 1,006 | #662 (1989) | #3,477 |
| 1990s | 6,830 | #279 (1998) | #418 |
| 2000s | 11,836 | #228 (2004) | #279 |
| 2010s | 6,154 | #356 (2011) | #535 |
| 2020s | 1,408 | #847 (2020) | #1,102 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kailey in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 3,063 of them was named Kailey, which outranked 97.2% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.