girls:
12.7k births since 1976
#1388 (76th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 2000
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
12.7k births since 1976
#2334 (70th percentile)
The name Kailee is the #2,334 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,746 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 69.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,388 (75.7% percentile) for all time with 12,718 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2000.
Kailee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 2000 for boys).
The name Kailee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kailee reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 51.7% percentile (ranked #439) with 291 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 291 births per million (ranked 51.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kailee ranks #829 for girls (12.5% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 24.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kailee reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #871) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kailee".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Kailee", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 102 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kaylee" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kaylee..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kailee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.3% confident that Kailee is pronounced as KAY-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-lee, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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