# Kaley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kaley/  
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 | 13,707 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25 / 13,682 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 102, 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 | 228 | 1,082 |
| 2012 | 240 | 1,051 |
| 2013 | 242 | 1,030 |
| 2014 | 249 | 1,045 |
| 2015 | 200 | 1,235 |
| 2016 | 182 | 1,316 |
| 2017 | 172 | 1,351 |
| 2018 | 134 | 1,603 |
| 2019 | 120 | 1,736 |
| 2020 | 93 | 2,013 |
| 2021 | 81 | 2,277 |
| 2022 | 77 | 2,396 |
| 2023 | 64 | 2,719 |
| 2024 | 64 | 2,706 |
| 2025 | 38 | 3,866 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 6,535 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,827 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,069 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,562 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,558 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | 1,996 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

## People named Kaley

- Kaley Cuoco, American actress and producer (born 1985)

## 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.