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Kailee

#1,969 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kaylee

Kailee has been given to 12,953 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,969 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 584 recorded.

Babies named Kailee, 2025

1 in 33,800

Kailee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kailee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylee

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kailee means

Kailee is a variant of Kaylee.

Origin, language, and formation

Kailee is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,925 girls were recorded with the name Kailee between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 584 in 2003; its best national rank was #486 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,312 in 2020 to #1,969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #812 in 2015 to #1,969 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Kailee between 2000 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,920 in 2001.

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 Kailee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,800
98 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,969
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kailee 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 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kailee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kailees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kailee was born before 2005 — so the typical Kailee is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,925
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (5,146).

Is Kailee 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
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−657
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,157
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.8%
Peak was 2003 (584)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#486
1999

Spellings of Kailee

Kailee is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 15.7% against Kailee's 1.1%.

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 Kailee is used

Across 2016–2025, Kailee was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,515 girls, against 1 in 8,476 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

266 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,515
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 2,128
  3. 3Georgia1 in 3,448
  4. 4Alabama1 in 3,846
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 5,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 5,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 6,667
  8. 8Michigan1 in 7,143

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.

Kailee around the world

Where Kailee 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
    1997–2007
    #3,667
    in 2007
  • France
    2009–2025
    #5,458
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kailee

People whose public names include Kailee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kailee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 657
Best rank ever
#486
1999
Peak year
2003
584 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,925
Count in 2025
98

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,920
2001
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kailee

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

KaisleeKailynKaileyKailaniKaizleeKailaKaiyaCarleeKarleeBryleeKairiBaileeHaileeCayleeMarleeJayleeHarleeKaitlynnKailahKailynnBayleeEmileeKynleeKaia

Names with a curve like Kailee

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

MaceyJazmynMckaylaJaceyLaurynShayleeKaylinAbbigailAllyKassidyKaylahLesly

Sibling names for Kailee

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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