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Kaelee

Girls' name

Variant of Kaylee

Kaelee has been given to 1,173 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Kaelee, 2024

1 in 304,000

Kaelee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaelee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylee

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaelee means

Kaelee is a variant of Kaylee.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kaelee is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkeɪ.li/ for Kaelee.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,173 girls were recorded with the name Kaelee between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2000; its best national rank was #2,545 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kaelee?

Kaelee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 304,000
11 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 147,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
210,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaelee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaelee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaelees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaelee was born before 2003 — so the typical Kaelee is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,173
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (467).

Is Kaelee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (58)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,545
1999

Spellings of Kaelee

Kaelee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 21.2% against Kaelee's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kaelee is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaelee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 372,980 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Nebraska1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kaelee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaelee around the world

Where Kaelee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1999–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kaelee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,545
1999
Peak year
2000
58 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,173
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaelee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KaelieKaedynKaelyKaelinKaelaniEvaleeLilleeFinleeBrileeKhyleeOnaleeAnsleeHalleeRynleeAzaleeKeyleeMaeleeAvaleeKaeleyShyleeCalleeJaileeCaileeKallee

Sibling names for Kaelee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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