Kaie

Boys' name

Variant of Kaia

Kaie has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2004, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kaie, 2004

1 in 764,000

Kaie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaie means

Kaie is a variant of Kaia.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaie is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Kaie between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #12,275 in 2004.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kaie?

Kaie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaie was born before 2004 — so the typical Kaie is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Kaie 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 2004 (5)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,275
2004

Spellings of Kaie

Kaie is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 18.7% against Kaie's <0.01%.

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.

Kaie around the world

Where Kaie 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
    2002–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1986–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Kaie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,275
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaie

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

Sibling names for Kaie

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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