Kalee
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #10,803
Given to girls 98.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 178 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,883since 1962
Kalee over time
Rank among girls' names. Kalee has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #2,117 | 95 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,978 | 101 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #1,878 | 103 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,820 | 104 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,687 | 113 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,632 | 113 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,329 | 142 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,066 | 189 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,127 | 169 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #1,153 | 161 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,176 | 154 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,144 | 153 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #1,083 | 166 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #1,034 | 178 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,164 | 151 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,071 | 169 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,340 | 119 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,225 | 131 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,446 | 95 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,470 | 88 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,304 | 102 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,493 | 82 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,721 | 32 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 | — | |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalee! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kalee 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.
- West Virginia#277 · 1 in 1,463
- Arkansas#392 · 1 in 1,983
- Mississippi#408 · 1 in 2,030
- Oklahoma#460 · 1 in 2,415
- Alabama#637 · 1 in 4,169
Best ever in a state: #277 in West Virginia, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #277 | 5 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Arkansas | #392 | 6 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Mississippi | #408 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Oklahoma | #460 | 7 | 1 in 2,415 |
| Alabama | #637 | 5 | 1 in 4,169 |
| Ohio | #653 | 12 | 1 in 5,135 |
| North Carolina | #805 | 7 | 1 in 6,013 |
| Arizona | #908 | 5 | 1 in 5,842 |
| Pennsylvania | #921 | 7 | 1 in 8,328 |
| Michigan | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 8,586 |
| Florida | #1,214 | 7 | 1 in 10,611 |
| Texas | #1,521 | 10 | 1 in 14,344 |
| California | #2,478 | 7 | 1 in 31,574 |
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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 Kalee
- 3,323 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #10,917)
- 6,654 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #10,917)
- 6,064 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1993 at #1,034 (178 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,385 girls born in 1999 were named Kalee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,034 in 1993, was only 1 in 10,163 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.4% of all girls named Kalee (1,609) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 32 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,505 |
| 1970s | 99 | #3,668 (1979) | #6,021 |
| 1980s | 633 | #1,225 (1989) | #2,625 |
| 1990s | 1,609 | #1,034 (1993) | #1,136 |
| 2000s | 1,059 | #1,329 (2000) | #1,873 |
| 2010s | 368 | #2,906 (2010) | #4,268 |
| 2020s | 83 | #4,263 (2020) | #9,042 |
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.
Kalee in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 10,455 of them was named Kalee, which outranked 93.2% 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).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 273,052 of them was named Kalee, which outranked 33.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).