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 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wisconsin#109 · 1 in 467
- Hawaii#125 · 1 in 380
- New Hampshire#134 · 1 in 484
- North Dakota#149 · 1 in 531
- Alaska#169 · 1 in 517
Best ever in a state: #76 in Wyoming, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #109 | 54 | 1 in 467 |
| Hawaii | #125 | 10 | 1 in 380 |
| New Hampshire | #134 | 10 | 1 in 484 |
| North Dakota | #149 | 5 | 1 in 531 |
| Alaska | #169 | 5 | 1 in 517 |
| Iowa | #172 | 18 | 1 in 781 |
| Minnesota | #176 | 29 | 1 in 871 |
| Montana | #176 | 5 | 1 in 572 |
| Maine | #179 | 6 | 1 in 772 |
| Washington | #179 | 36 | 1 in 812 |
| Massachusetts | #188 | 36 | 1 in 886 |
| Louisiana | #191 | 25 | 1 in 874 |
| Rhode Island | #199 | 5 | 1 in 829 |
| Missouri | #200 | 31 | 1 in 958 |
| Kentucky | #208 | 19 | 1 in 1,073 |
| Oklahoma | #211 | 19 | 1 in 890 |
| Connecticut | #218 | 15 | 1 in 1,036 |
| Kansas | #219 | 13 | 1 in 996 |
| Utah | #221 | 17 | 1 in 972 |
| Tennessee | #222 | 27 | 1 in 1,131 |
| Indiana | #227 | 29 | 1 in 1,141 |
| Alabama | #240 | 18 | 1 in 1,158 |
| Colorado | #241 | 21 | 1 in 1,060 |
| Illinois | #242 | 59 | 1 in 1,193 |
| Michigan | #242 | 40 | 1 in 1,288 |
| North Carolina | #244 | 33 | 1 in 1,275 |
| Idaho | #246 | 6 | 1 in 983 |
| Mississippi | #251 | 11 | 1 in 1,107 |
| Nevada | #254 | 9 | 1 in 1,014 |
| Virginia | #267 | 25 | 1 in 1,356 |
| Arkansas | #269 | 9 | 1 in 1,322 |
| South Carolina | #270 | 13 | 1 in 1,291 |
| Nebraska | #275 | 6 | 1 in 1,348 |
| West Virginia | #277 | 5 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Arizona | #287 | 23 | 1 in 1,270 |
| Pennsylvania | #289 | 36 | 1 in 1,619 |
| Florida | #290 | 47 | 1 in 1,580 |
| Ohio | #301 | 35 | 1 in 1,761 |
| Oregon | #307 | 12 | 1 in 1,370 |
| Texas | #308 | 86 | 1 in 1,668 |
| New Jersey | #329 | 22 | 1 in 1,886 |
| Georgia | #339 | 24 | 1 in 1,856 |
| Maryland | #340 | 13 | 1 in 1,842 |
| California | #386 | 106 | 1 in 2,085 |
| New York | #562 | 28 | 1 in 3,597 |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
| New Mexico | — | — | — |
| South Dakota | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 1,586 of them was named Kailey, which outranked 98.3% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.