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Keily

#1,191 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Keily has been given to 5,360 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #1,191 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 328 recorded.

Babies named Keily, 2025

1 in 17,100

Keily over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keily: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keily means

Keily is a given name.

The naming story behind Keily

Wikidata records Keily as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116414255, 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, 5,355 girls were recorded with the name Keily between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 328 in 2018; its best national rank was #829 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #854 in 2020 to #1,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,119 in 2015 to #1,191 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Keily between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #13,164 in 2019.

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 Keily?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,100
194 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,280
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,191
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,846 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keily 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,846 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keily. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keilys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keily was born before 2015 — so the typical Keily is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (2,356).

Is Keily 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
−208
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−337
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−72
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.1%
Peak was 2018 (328)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#829
2018

Spellings of Keily

Keily is not the most common spelling — Emily is, with 43.2% against Keily's 0.26%.

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 Keily is used

Across 2016–2025, Keily was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 5,143 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

242 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,381
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,778
  3. 3California1 in 3,571
  4. 4New York1 in 3,704
  5. 5Texas1 in 3,846
  6. 6Virginia1 in 4,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 4,545
  8. 8Georgia1 in 4,762

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.

Keily around the world

Where Keily 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
    2000–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • France
    2012–2025
    #4,672
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–1980
    #634
    in 1980

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.

Keily by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 337
Best rank ever
#829
2018
Peak year
2018
328 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,355
Count in 2025
194

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,164
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keily

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

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Names with a curve like Keily

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

EllisonKamiyahAliannaLandryMarleighElleryRayleeMayleeKamariDalilahHarmoniElina

Sibling names for Keily

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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