Kailee Girl
How popular is Kailee?
#1,962 girl name in 2025
98 baby girls were named Kailee in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
Kailee popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,962 for girls (▼ 37 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 98 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-72% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #812 in 2015, #1,308 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2003 (584 girls) |
| Highest rank | #485 in 1999 |
| First recorded | 1976 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kailee counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kaylee family of names ranked #38 for girls in 2025 (#29 the year before), with 6,126 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kaylee | 1,205 | 20% |
| Callie | 1,754 | 29% |
| Kali | 948 | 15% |
| Cali | 518 | 8% |
| Kayleigh | 340 | 6% |
| Kallie | 279 | 5% |
| Kailey | 153 | 2% |
| Kaylie | 148 | 2% |
| Caylee | 84 | 1% |
| Kailee | 98 | 2% |
| Kaleigh | 56 | 1% |
| Kaley | 38 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kailee is most popular
Babies named Kailee per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.6 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Arkansas: 0.2 per 1,000 (8 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Kailee by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #6,946 |
| 1980s | 522 | #1,129 |
| 1990s | 3,127 | #485 |
| 2000s | 5,146 | #493 |
| 2010s | 3,310 | #664 |
| 2020s | 792 | #1,308 |
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Questions
- Is Kailee a boy or girl name?
- Kailee is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kailee were girls.
- How popular is the name Kailee?
- 98 baby girls were named Kailee in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
- When was Kailee most popular?
- Kailee peaked in 2003, when 584 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #485 in 1999.
- How many people are named Kailee?
- 12,953 babies have been named Kailee in the US since 1880. We estimate about 12,819 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 21.
- Where is Kailee most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kailee was most common in Mississippi, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.