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Kalee

#11,387 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kalee has been given to 3,957 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #11,387 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 189 recorded.

Babies named Kalee, 2025

1 in 414,000

Kalee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalee means

Kalee is a given name.

The naming story behind Kalee

Wikidata records Kalee as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121391618, 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, 3,883 girls were recorded with the name Kalee between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 189 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,035 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,307 in 2020 to #11,387 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,914 in 2015 to #11,387 in 2025.

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Kalee between 1990 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,014 in 1998.

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 Kalee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,387
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalee 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalee was born before 1997 — so the typical Kalee is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,883
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (1,609).

Is Kalee 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
−3,618
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,080
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,473
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 1999 (189)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,035
1993

Spellings of Kalee

Kalee is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 35.4% against Kalee's 0.14%.

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 Kalee is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalee was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 77,066 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Utah1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

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. Kalee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalee around the world

Where Kalee 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
    1996–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • France
    2014–2015
    #7,599
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1988–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Kalee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kalee. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kaley

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kalee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,387
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,080
Best rank ever
#1,035
1993
Peak year
1999
189 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,883
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,014
1998
Peak year
1998
7 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kalee

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

KalleeKaleaKalieKalliKaliaKalynKaleiKalynnKalinaKaleahKalenKallyKalenaKaliahJoleeKaleyMyleeRileeKalaKalayaKalaniKallieKalilaKalista

Names with a curve like Kalee

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

KeyanaViridianaBrieannaKeyannaYessicaKaylanKelsyKeannaKeyonnaAllysaHalleyKaela

Sibling names for Kalee

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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