Kailee
#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 534 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,925since 1976
Kailee over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailee has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,962 | 98 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,925 | 103 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,669 | 124 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,521 | 141 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,384 | 158 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,308 | 168 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,158 | 207 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,044 | 246 | — | |
| 2017 | #938 | 281 | — | |
| 2016 | #911 | 304 | — | |
| 2015 | #812 | 345 | — | |
| 2014 | #862 | 319 | — | |
| 2013 | #739 | 368 | — | |
| 2012 | #738 | 377 | — | |
| 2011 | #667 | 424 | — | |
| 2010 | #664 | 439 | — | |
| 2009 | #649 | 455 | — | |
| 2008 | #631 | 490 | — | |
| 2007 | #584 | 512 | — | |
| 2006 | #588 | 496 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #574 | 499 | — | |
| 2004 | #529 | 537 | — | |
| 2003 | #493 | 584 | — | |
| 2002 | #514 | 534 | — | |
| 2001 | #532 | 503 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #503 | 536 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #485 | 534 | — | |
| 1998 | #510 | 496 | — | |
| 1997 | #578 | 401 | — | |
| 1996 | #626 | 359 | — | |
| 1995 | #719 | 286 | — | |
| 1994 | #819 | 246 | — | |
| 1993 | #895 | 215 | — | |
| 1992 | #904 | 216 | — | |
| 1991 | #888 | 221 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,130 | 153 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,132 | 146 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,269 | 115 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,570 | 80 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,638 | 72 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,687 | 21 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailee! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1979, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Kailee is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maine#225 · 1 in 1,266
- Utah#316 · 1 in 1,694
- Minnesota#470 · 1 in 3,990
- Michigan#521 · 1 in 4,165
- Washington#773 · 1 in 6,181
Best ever in a state: #23 in Hawaii, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maine | #225 | 5 | 1 in 1,266 |
| Utah | #316 | 8 | 1 in 1,694 |
| Minnesota | #470 | 7 | 1 in 3,990 |
| Michigan | #521 | 15 | 1 in 4,165 |
| Washington | #773 | 5 | 1 in 6,181 |
| Ohio | #820 | 8 | 1 in 8,862 |
| Illinois | #1,028 | 8 | 1 in 9,813 |
| Florida | #1,250 | 6 | 1 in 13,188 |
| California | #1,314 | 19 | 1 in 13,813 |
| Texas | #1,655 | 7 | 1 in 19,655 |
| New York | #1,974 | 5 | 1 in 24,411 |
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See more about Kailee
- 37 spots since 2024 (#1,925 → #1,962)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#1,308 → #1,962)
- 1,150 spots since 2015 (#812 → #1,962)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1991 (#1,130 → #888)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2014 (#739 → #862)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1999 at #485 (534 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1991–2017
- Highest: 1 in 3,129 girls born in 2003 were named Kailee (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #485 in 1999, was only 1 in 3,322 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.8% of all girls named Kailee (5,146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #6,948 (1978) | #7,715 |
| 1980s | 522 | #1,132 (1989) | #3,475 |
| 1990s | 3,127 | #485 (1999) | #755 |
| 2000s | 5,146 | #493 (2003) | #560 |
| 2010s | 3,310 | #664 (2010) | #853 |
| 2020s | 792 | #1,308 (2020) | #1,628 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kailee in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 12,409 of them was named Kailee, which outranked 92.6% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,127Jenelle154
- #1,127Marlee154
- #1,127Thalia154
- #1,130Kailee153
- #1,130Alesia153
- #1,130Alia153
- #1,130Chantell153
- #1,137Berenice152
- #1,137Johnna152
- #1,137Madalyn152
Tied with 6 names at #1,130; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.