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Kaylea

#8,100 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kaylee

Kaylea has been given to 3,107 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #8,100 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Kaylea, 2025

1 in 255,000

Kaylea over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaylea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kaylee

surname transfer

What Kaylea means

Kaylea is a variant of Kaylee.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaylea is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kaylea is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kaylee.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Kaylea is pronounced /ˈkeɪli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,107 girls were recorded with the name Kaylea between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,206 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,751 in 2020 to #8,100 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,258 in 2015 to #8,100 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 Kaylea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,100
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaylea 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kayleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylea was born before 2001 — so the typical Kaylea is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,107
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (1,216).

Is Kaylea 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
−325
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−349
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,842
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 1999 (158)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,206
1999

Spellings of Kaylea

Kaylea is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 22.9% against Kaylea's 0.21%.

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 Kaylea is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaylea was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 103,085 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Missouri1 in 33,333
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  4. 4Iowa1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Kaylea around the world

Where Kaylea 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
    1997–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Kaylea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,100
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 349
Best rank ever
#1,206
1999
Peak year
1999
158 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,107
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Kaylea

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

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Names with a curve like Kaylea

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

ShivaniMercedezChyanneKiarraKierstinCailinTyanaImariAlexiKaytlinKlarissaElexis

Sibling names for Kaylea

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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