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 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Iowa#399 · 1 in 2,292
- Missouri#434 · 1 in 2,660
- Georgia#530 · 1 in 3,266
- Oklahoma#531 · 1 in 2,780
- Louisiana#559 · 1 in 3,148
Best ever in a state: #277 in West Virginia, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #399 | 6 | 1 in 2,292 |
| Missouri | #434 | 11 | 1 in 2,660 |
| Georgia | #530 | 14 | 1 in 3,266 |
| Oklahoma | #531 | 6 | 1 in 2,780 |
| Louisiana | #559 | 7 | 1 in 3,148 |
| Kentucky | #570 | 5 | 1 in 4,015 |
| Michigan | #583 | 13 | 1 in 3,946 |
| Arizona | #624 | 9 | 1 in 3,383 |
| Tennessee | #631 | 7 | 1 in 4,375 |
| Indiana | #744 | 6 | 1 in 5,536 |
| Colorado | #773 | 5 | 1 in 4,613 |
| North Carolina | #808 | 7 | 1 in 6,071 |
| Ohio | #1,063 | 6 | 1 in 10,256 |
| Illinois | #1,086 | 8 | 1 in 8,729 |
| Florida | #1,415 | 6 | 1 in 12,453 |
| Texas | #1,473 | 11 | 1 in 13,384 |
| New York | #1,746 | 6 | 1 in 16,637 |
| California | #1,954 | 10 | 1 in 21,906 |
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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 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 9,385 of them was named Kalee, which outranked 93.7% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).