Kaeley
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaeley has been given to 821 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1998, with 47 recorded.
Babies named Kaeley, 2024
1 in 557,000
Kaeley over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaeley?
Kaeley 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 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaeley sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaeley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaeleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaeley was born before 2002 — so the typical Kaeley is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 821
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (342).
Is Kaeley 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (47)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kaeley
Kaeley is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 26.5% against Kaeley's 0.05%.
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 Kaeley is used
Across 1910–2025, Kaeley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 417,801 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Maryland1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Kaeley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kaeley around the world
Where Kaeley 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.
- Canada1999–2011#3,211in 2011
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
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.
Kaeley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaeley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaeley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.