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Kayley

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Kayley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 548th, in 1999.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
490.00% of girls
Peak year
1999461 births
Best rank
#548in 1999
Since 1977
8,541people given the name
Babies named Kayley, by year of birthgirls
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

8,541 girls have been named Kayley in the United States since 1977, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 461 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 43%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Kayley
1970s5
1980s476
1990s2,559
2000s3,679
2010s1,503
2020s319

In 1999, its biggest year

Kayley was the 548th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Kayley

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.