Kayley
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 461 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,586since 1977
Kayley over time
Rank among girls' names. Kayley has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,510 | 71 |
| 2021 | #2,715 | 63 |
| 2020 | #2,241 | 80 |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 |
| 2018 | #2,014 | 97 |
| 2017 | #1,976 | 100 |
| 2016 | #1,704 | 125 |
| 2015 | #1,622 | 132 |
| 2014 | #1,526 | 143 |
| 2013 | #1,292 | 181 |
| 2012 | #1,128 | 218 |
| 2011 | #1,160 | 211 |
| 2010 | #1,075 | 231 |
| 2009 | #929 | 288 |
| 2008 | #819 | 349 |
| 2007 | #840 | 338 |
| 2006 | #732 | 383 |
| 2005 | #638 | 438 |
| 2004 | #666 | 411 |
| 2003 | #692 | 377 |
| 2002 | #734 | 332 |
| 2001 | #669 | 375 |
| 2000 | #645 | 388 |
| 1999 | #548 | 461 |
| 1998 | #555 | 446 |
| 1997 | #802 | 259 |
| 1996 | #803 | 256 |
| 1995 | #914 | 206 |
| 1994 | #848 | 235 |
| 1993 | #943 | 200 |
| 1992 | #969 | 197 |
| 1991 | #1,128 | 157 |
| 1990 | #1,198 | 142 |
| 1989 | #1,123 | 147 |
| 1988 | #1,376 | 103 |
| 1987 | #1,581 | 79 |
| 1986 | #1,751 | 66 |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kayley! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kayley is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#366 · 1 in 1,972
- Iowa#369 · 1 in 2,546
- Indiana#496 · 1 in 3,694
- Ohio#529 · 1 in 4,247
- Washington#640 · 1 in 4,397
Best ever in a state: #173 in Montana, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #366 | 7 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Iowa | #369 | 6 | 1 in 2,546 |
| Indiana | #496 | 9 | 1 in 3,694 |
| Ohio | #529 | 16 | 1 in 4,247 |
| Washington | #640 | 7 | 1 in 4,397 |
| Louisiana | #710 | 5 | 1 in 4,739 |
| Florida | #772 | 12 | 1 in 6,256 |
| Georgia | #844 | 6 | 1 in 6,882 |
| Pennsylvania | #925 | 7 | 1 in 9,780 |
| California | #952 | 31 | 1 in 8,284 |
| Michigan | #966 | 6 | 1 in 9,511 |
| New York | #1,127 | 11 | 1 in 10,555 |
| Texas | #1,367 | 10 | 1 in 13,758 |
| Illinois | #1,426 | 5 | 1 in 15,056 |
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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 Kayley
- 164 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #3,389)
- 1,148 spots since 2020 (#2,241 → #3,389)
- 1,767 spots since 2015 (#1,622 → #3,389)
- Biggest jump: 247 spots in 1998 (#802 → #555)
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 2010 (#929 → #1,075)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1999 at #548 (461 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1992–2009
- Highest: 1 in 3,848 girls born in 1999 were named Kayley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.8% of all girls named Kayley (3,679) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,652 |
| 1980s | 476 | #1,123 (1989) | #3,819 |
| 1990s | 2,559 | #548 (1999) | #871 |
| 2000s | 3,679 | #638 (2005) | #736 |
| 2010s | 1,503 | #1,075 (2010) | #1,615 |
| 2020s | 364 | #2,241 (2020) | #2,843 |
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.
Kayley in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 9,360 of them was named Kayley, which outranked 93.8% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #963Destini199
- #963Jessenia199
- #963Jessi199
- #969Kayley197
- #969Ada197
- #969Dora197
- #969Gillian197
- #975Bree196
- #975Maryann196
- #975Maxine196
Tied with 5 names at #969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.