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Kaley

#3,865 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kaylee

Kaley has been given to 13,707 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #3,865 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 578 recorded.

Babies named Kaley, 2025

1 in 87,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaley: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylee

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaley means

Kaley is a variant of Kaylee.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaley is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,682 girls were recorded with the name Kaley between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 578 in 2003; its best national rank was #460 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,013 in 2020 to #3,865 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,235 in 2015 to #3,865 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Kaley between 1979 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1979; its best national rank was #6,533 in 1979.

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 Kaley?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 42,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,865
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaley 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaley was born before 2000 — so the typical Kaley is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,682
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1990s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (4,905).

Is Kaley 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
−1,159
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,852
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,630
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.6%
Peak was 2003 (578)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#460
1993

Spellings of Kaley

Kaley is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 23.9% against Kaley's 0.33%.

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 Kaley is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaley was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 16,189 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 12,500
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Illinois1 in 16,667
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 16,667

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.

Kaley around the world

Where Kaley 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
    1996–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1988–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1994–2015
    #751
    in 2015
  • France
    2018–2018
    #4,902
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1987–2013
    #328
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Kaley

People whose public names include Kaley, 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.

Kaley in other languages

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

KaleeKayleeKayleyKayleigh

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

Kaley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,865
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,852
Best rank ever
#460
1993
Peak year
2003
578 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,682
Count in 2025
38

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,533
1979
Peak year
1979
5 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kaley

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

KalleyKalynKallieKaliaKalliKalieKalaniKaleaKaleeKalaMileyKaliyahKileyKaliKaleighKaleahKalinaKaleiAdleyKalynnOakleyAnsleyCarleyKalen

Names with a curve like Kaley

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

TiannaKailaKarliCaylaTessKaleighCarlieKaylynKierstenMarielaCarliKierra

Sibling names for Kaley

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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