Kaylie

Where Kaylie comes from

The dictionaries list Kaylie as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #5,642 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Kaylie Collins born
    American soccer player
  3. 2006
    Peak, #281
    1,195 babies named Kaylie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #518.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kaylee.
Namesakes
  • Kaylie Collins · American soccer player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.