How Many People Are Named Kailee?

12,804

people named Kailee are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 26,693 people in the US has this name

Based on 12,953 babies named Kailee in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,116

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,158

See the top 100

Peak Year

2003

584 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: KAY-lee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of KAYLEE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Kailee in English. Counting Kailee and these spellings together, about 278,607 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Kailee (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kailee alive today is about 20 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 26 in 2025.

Under 30 10,960
85.6%
30 to 59 1,844
14.4%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kailee first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 2003, to 584 babies. In 2025, 98 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kailee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #486, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,969.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,969
Best rank#486 (1999)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#573 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Kailee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Kailee were born in California than in any other state: about 1,412 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kailee was given 10.7 times as often in Hawaii, 2 times in Utah and 1.8 times in Mississippi.

California 1,412
Texas 1,011
New York 579
Florida 577
Michigan 474
Ohio 472
Washington 395
Illinois 393
Georgia 393
Tennessee 341
North Carolina 330
Pennsylvania 329
Arizona 286
Hawaii 279
Louisiana 256
Utah 250
Wisconsin 243
Indiana 235
Minnesota 231
Alabama 201
Missouri 200
Colorado 181
Virginia 175
Oklahoma 160
Mississippi 154
Oregon 151
Kentucky 135
Iowa 130
Massachusetts 129
Maryland 119
New Jersey 117
South Carolina 117
Arkansas 114
Nevada 70
Idaho 60
Kansas 58
West Virginia 45
New Mexico 42
Connecticut 41
Nebraska 22
Montana 13
Maine 11
North Dakota 10
South Dakota 9
Wyoming 5

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