Kaylea

Where Kaylea comes from

The dictionaries list Kaylea as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #8,562 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #1,206
    158 babies named Kaylea — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,514.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.