How Many People Are Named Kayley?

8,479

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

About 1 in 40,309 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,586 babies named Kayley in Social Security records from 1977 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,731

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,520

See the top 100

Peak Year

1999

461 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 Kayley in English. Counting Kayley and these spellings together, about 278,607 people alive in the US have the name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Kayley in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Kayley alive today is about 22 years old, and 81% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 6,898
81.4%
30 to 59 1,581
18.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Kayley first appears in the records in 1977 and was given most often in 1999, to 461 babies. In 2025, 45 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1977 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Kayley has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #548, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,428.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,428
Best rank#548 (1999)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#734 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Kayley were born in California than in any other state: about 1,057 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kayley was given 1.6 times as often in North Carolina, 1.4 times in Indiana and 1.4 times in Ohio.

California 1,057
Texas 604
Florida 422
Ohio 352
New York 339
North Carolina 302
Illinois 296
Pennsylvania 276
Georgia 254
Michigan 215
Indiana 187
Tennessee 166
Virginia 157
Missouri 150
Washington 146
Massachusetts 142
Alabama 115
New Jersey 113
Minnesota 110
Kentucky 110
Arizona 105
Wisconsin 101
South Carolina 88
Louisiana 83
Colorado 73
Oklahoma 69
Maryland 69
Utah 67
Arkansas 47
Oregon 47
West Virginia 41
Kansas 39
Iowa 39
Mississippi 32
Connecticut 28
Nebraska 10
New Mexico 5
New Hampshire 5
Montana 5

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