# Kailey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kailey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 27,254 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 27,244 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 146, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 906 | 356 |
| 2012 | 757 | 415 |
| 2013 | 671 | 452 |
| 2014 | 664 | 476 |
| 2015 | 588 | 531 |
| 2016 | 507 | 595 |
| 2017 | 454 | 656 |
| 2018 | 427 | 685 |
| 2019 | 346 | 800 |
| 2020 | 322 | 848 |
| 2021 | 271 | 961 |
| 2022 | 256 | 1,017 |
| 2023 | 226 | 1,091 |
| 2024 | 180 | 1,288 |
| 2025 | 153 | 1,420 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | 7,266 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | 2,509 |
| 2007 | 10 | 2,233 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.