Kayli

#3,547 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kayli has been given to 7,134 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #3,547 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 333 recorded.

Babies named Kayli, 2025

1 in 77,100

Kayli over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kayli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,547
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kayli 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kayli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaylis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kayli was born before 2002 — so the typical Kayli is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (2,882).

Is Kayli 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
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−935
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,742
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.9%
Peak was 2003 (333)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#712
1999

Spellings of Kayli

Kayli is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 18.4% against Kayli's 0.38%.

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 Kayli is used

Across 2016–2025, Kayli was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 31,484 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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.

Kayli around the world

Where Kayli 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
    1996–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • France
    2010–2025
    #4,496
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #2,329
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1989–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Kayli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,547
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 935
Best rank ever
#712
1999
Peak year
2003
333 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,134
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Kayli

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

Names with a curve like Kayli

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

Sibling names for Kayli

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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