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Kaeli

#756 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kaeli has been given to 3,447 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #756 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 430 recorded.

Babies named Kaeli, 2025

1 in 9,260

Kaeli over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaeli: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaeli means

Kaeli is a given name.

The naming story behind Kaeli

Wikidata records Kaeli as a given name. The entity identifier is Q131542066, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,447 girls were recorded with the name Kaeli between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 430 in 2023; its best national rank was #679 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,214 in 2020 to #756 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,651 in 2015 to #756 in 2025.

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 Kaeli?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,260
358 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,490
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#756
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaeli 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 2025 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,420 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaeli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaelis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaeli was born before 2008 — so the typical Kaeli is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,447
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (1,290).

Is Kaeli 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
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,458
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,895
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
11.93×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2023 (430)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#679
2023

Spellings of Kaeli

Kaeli is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 31.1% against Kaeli's 0.31%.

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 Kaeli is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaeli was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 9,608 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

132 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 3,125
  2. 2Texas1 in 4,167
  3. 3Arizona1 in 4,348
  4. 4Nevada1 in 4,545
  5. 5California1 in 6,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 9,091
  7. 7Kansas1 in 9,091
  8. 8Colorado1 in 10,000

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.

Kaeli around the world

Where Kaeli 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kaeli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#756
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,458
Best rank ever
#679
2023
Peak year
2023
430 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,447
Count in 2025
358

Names similar to Kaeli

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

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Names with a curve like Kaeli

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaeli, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kaeli

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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