Kalei
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 87.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 142 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,948since 1980
Kalei over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,993 | 95 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,955 | 90 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 100 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,776 | 98 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,612 | 104 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #1,646 | 98 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,864 | 79 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #4,973 | 7 |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalei! It came in at #6,789, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kalei is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#629 · 1 in 3,800
- Georgia#703 · 1 in 4,145
- Washington#712 · 1 in 4,123
- Pennsylvania#903 · 1 in 7,065
- Virginia#1,017 · 1 in 7,208
Best ever in a state: #197 in Hawaii, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #629 | 8 | 1 in 3,800 |
| Georgia | #703 | 12 | 1 in 4,145 |
| Washington | #712 | 7 | 1 in 4,123 |
| Pennsylvania | #903 | 8 | 1 in 7,065 |
| Virginia | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,208 |
| North Carolina | #1,198 | 5 | 1 in 8,700 |
| Texas | #1,572 | 12 | 1 in 13,173 |
| Florida | #1,580 | 6 | 1 in 13,303 |
| California | #2,114 | 10 | 1 in 22,666 |
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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 Kalei
- 3,214 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #8,362)
- 4,686 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #8,362)
- 3,959 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2003 at #1,395 (142 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,867 girls born in 2003 were named Kalei (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.6% of all girls named Kalei (907) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 81 | #4,358 (1989) | #6,723 |
| 1990s | 433 | #1,612 (1999) | #3,938 |
| 2000s | 907 | #1,395 (2003) | #2,123 |
| 2010s | 354 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,231 |
| 2020s | 173 | #3,676 (2020) | #5,047 |
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.
Kalei in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 12,867 of them was named Kalei, which outranked 92.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,390Linnea143
- #1,390Madysen143
- #1,390Tyanna143
- #1,395Kalei142
- #1,395Anisha142
- #1,395Bayleigh142
- #1,395Darcy142
- #1,411Adamaris141
- #1,411Emmaline141
- #1,411Jaylah141
Tied with 15 names at #1,395; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.