girls:
3.9k births since 1962
#2779 (51st percentile)
boys:
74 births since 1990
#4512 (2nd percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1962
#4382 (43rd percentile)
The name Kalee is the #4,382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,935 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 43.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,779 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,861 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #4,512 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 1990.
Kalee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Kalee is available in 60 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kalee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kalee reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 20.7% percentile (ranked #703) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 97 births per million (ranked 20.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kalee ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kalee reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #793) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Kalee".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kalee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.4% confident that Kalee is pronounced as kuh-LEE, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-LAY, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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