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Kalley

#16,049 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kalley has been given to 710 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #16,049 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Kalley, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kalley over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalley: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalley means

Kalley is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalley is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 710 girls were recorded with the name Kalley between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,159 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,771 in 2020 to #16,049 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,352 in 2015 to #16,049 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kalley?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,049
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalley 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalley was born before 1998 — so the typical Kalley is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
710
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Kalley 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
−3,284
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,278
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,697
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.8%
Peak was 1997 (64)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,159
1997

Spellings of Kalley

Kalley is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 23.5% against Kalley's 0.04%.

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 Kalley is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalley was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 17,629 across all states with data.

66 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 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. Kalley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalley around the world

Where Kalley 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.

  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kalley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,049
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,278
Best rank ever
#2,159
1997
Peak year
1997
64 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
710
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kalley

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

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Sibling names for Kalley

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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