Kalei
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 87.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 142 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,948since 1980
Kalei over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #8,362 | 12 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #1,993 | 95 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,955 | 90 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 100 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,776 | 98 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,612 | 104 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #1,646 | 98 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,864 | 79 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,569 | 31 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #4,973 | 7 |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kalei! It came in at #6,789, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kalei is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#228 · 1 in 697
- North Carolina#808 · 1 in 6,071
- Pennsylvania#1,182 · 1 in 11,586
- Ohio#1,214 · 1 in 12,308
- Texas#1,563 · 1 in 14,722
Best ever in a state: #197 in Hawaii, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #228 | 5 | 1 in 697 |
| North Carolina | #808 | 7 | 1 in 6,071 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,182 | 5 | 1 in 11,586 |
| Ohio | #1,214 | 5 | 1 in 12,308 |
| Texas | #1,563 | 10 | 1 in 14,722 |
| California | #1,576 | 14 | 1 in 15,647 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kalei
- 3,214 spots since 2024 (#5,148 → #8,362)
- 4,686 spots since 2020 (#3,676 → #8,362)
- 3,959 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2003 at #1,395 (142 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,867 girls born in 2003 were named Kalei (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.6% of all girls named Kalei (907) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1985, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 81 | #4,358 (1989) | #6,723 |
| 1990s | 433 | #1,612 (1999) | #3,938 |
| 2000s | 907 | #1,395 (2003) | #2,123 |
| 2010s | 354 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,231 |
| 2020s | 173 | #3,676 (2020) | #5,047 |
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.
Kalei in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 17,056 of them was named Kalei, which outranked 90.5% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,596Rayven105
- #1,596Ricki105
- #1,596Tierney105
- #1,612Kalei104
- #1,612Andria104
- #1,612Bertha104
- #1,612Jamiya104
- #1,621Adina103
- #1,621Averi103
- #1,621Cami103
Tied with 8 names at #1,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 192,015 of them was named Kalei, which outranked 48.0% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,656Ziyon11
- #5,656Zoltan11
- #5,656Zyair11
- #6,042Kalei10
- #6,042Abdon10
- #6,042Abdulkareem10
- #6,042Abdurahman10
- #6,530Ab9
- #6,530Abdelaziz9
- #6,530Adarrius9
Tied with 487 names at #6,042; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.