girls:
137.8k births since 1943
#290 (95th percentile)
boys:
176 births since 1988
#4410 (4th percentile)
overall:
137.9k births since 1943
#539 (93rd percentile)
The name Kaylee is the #539 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 137,950 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 93.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #290 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 137,774 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,410 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 176 births since 1988.
Kaylee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Kaylee is available in 64 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (64 years for girls and 19 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 Kaylee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kaylee reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 97.4% percentile (ranked #26) with 3,564 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3,564 births per million (ranked 97.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kaylee ranks #174 for girls (81.7% percentile) with 938 births per million, which is 26.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kaylee reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kaylee".
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