Kaylee

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kaylee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Coined toward the end of the 20th century * A combination of Kay + Lee. * A variant of the surname Cayley or Keeley.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 5.3K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 22K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

115,422 people, 2020

Sources
433 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Coined toward the end of the 20th century * A combination of Kay + Lee. * A variant of the surname Cayley or Keeley.

Sources 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaylee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kaylee is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—115,4221 in 2.9K115KKaylee433
NL Netherlands#8363,2581 in 5.3K3.3KKaylee70
GB United Kingdom—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 47K3Kaylee144
AU Australia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 22K16Kaylee115
CA Canada—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 34K15Kaylee151

115,422 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kaylee is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Argentina, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kay-Lee, Kaylèe, Käylee, Káÿlèê

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Kay-Lee

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Кэйли

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Kelly-Ruth Mercier, b. 1967Kaylee Hartung, b. 1985Kaylee DeFer, b. 1986Kaylee Manns, b. 1988Kelly Byrne, b. 1990Kaylee Bryant, b. 1997Kaylee Dodson, b. 1999Kaylee Lang, b. 2000Kaylee McKeown, b. 2001Kaylee Hottle, b. 2008

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 58 sources across 39 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kaylee mean, and where does it come from?
Coined toward the end of the 20th century * A combination of Kay + Lee. * A variant of the surname Cayley or Keeley. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
In which country does Kaylee have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 115 thousand people named Kaylee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaylee.
Where is Kaylee most common?
Kaylee is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
Is Kaylee a male or female name?
Kaylee is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Kaylee?
In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Tina are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kathy and Kathryn.
How common is the name Kaylee?
In the United States, the national register counted 115,422 people named Kaylee in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
How common is Kaylee compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Kaylee is the 836th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaylee” — the 836th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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